This British big screen adaptation of Walter
Lord's best-selling
book was released
by Rank in 1958,
and recounts the
final night on board
RMS Titanic.
by Rank in 1958,
and recounts the
final night on board
RMS Titanic.
The film was directed
by Roy Ward Baker,
and producer William MacQuitty used White
Star Line blueprints
to create life-like sets,
while Titanic's Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall was a consultant.
Despite its modest production values, A Night to Remember is regarded
by critics as the most historically accurate of the many Titanic movies,
and earned a Golden Globe award.
by Roy Ward Baker,
and producer William MacQuitty used White
Star Line blueprints
to create life-like sets,
while Titanic's Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall was a consultant.
Despite its modest production values, A Night to Remember is regarded
by critics as the most historically accurate of the many Titanic movies,
and earned a Golden Globe award.
The story of the 'unsinkable' liner's loss in 1912 was told from the point
of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles
Lightoller, portrayed by Kenneth More.
Bob Ballard's discovery of the wreck of Titanic in 1985 sparked a fresh
wave of public interest in the disaster, and Lord (1917-2002) penned a
sequel, The Night Lives On (1986) and even acted as a consultant on
James Cameron's Titanic (1997).
of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles
Lightoller, portrayed by Kenneth More.
Bob Ballard's discovery of the wreck of Titanic in 1985 sparked a fresh
wave of public interest in the disaster, and Lord (1917-2002) penned a
sequel, The Night Lives On (1986) and even acted as a consultant on
James Cameron's Titanic (1997).
Shown again on Film4 today, the acclaimed film featured Geoffrey
Bayldon, and twenty-two future Doctor Who cast and crew alumni:
Bayldon, and twenty-two future Doctor Who cast and crew alumni:
- Honor Blackman (Mrs. Lucas) played Professor Lasky in Terror of the Vervoids, then voiced Queen Anahita for Big Finish's The Children of Seth (2011)
- Roanld Allen (Clarke) was Rago in The Dominators, and Professor Ralph Cornish in The Ambassadors of Death
- Richard Leech (Murdoch) was Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers
- Ralph Michael (Yates) was Balaton in The Pirate Planet
- Jack Watling (Fourth Officer Boxhall) was Professor Edward Travers in The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and Downtime
- Harold Goldblatt (Guggenheim) was Professor Dale in Frontier in Space
- Andrew Keir (Joseph Bell) was Wyler in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
- Philip Ray (Anderson) was Professor Daniel Eldred in The Seeds of Death
- Roger Avon (Reginald Lee) was Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in (episode 4 of) The Daleks' Master Plan, and Wells in the second Dalek film
- Jeremy Bulloch (Boy) was Hal in The Time Warrior
- George A Cooper (Purser Hughes) was Cherub in The Smugglers
- Glyn Houston (Stoker) was Professor [Owen] Watson in The Hand of Fear, and Colonel Ben Wolsey in The Awakening
- Robert James (Hesketh) was Lester in The Power of the Daleks, and the High Priest in The Masque of Mandragora
- Stratford Johns (Crewman) was Monarch in Four to Doomsday
- Howard Lang (Chief Officer Henry Wilde) was Horg in 100,000 BC
- Derren Nesbitt (Stoker) was Tegana in Marco Polo, and voiced Thomas Dodd for Spare Parts (2002) and Ordinal-General Quences for Auld Mortality (2003)
- Steve Plytas (Greek Passenger) was Wigner in The Tenth Planet
- Mavis Ranson (Passenger) was a Schoolgirl in An Unearthly Child
- Richard Shaw (Crewman) was Lobos in The Space Museum, Cross in Frontier in Space, and Lakh in Underworld
- Pauline Challoner (Child) auditioned for the role of Victoria Waterfield in April 1967
- Jack Silk was a stuntman on The Daemons too
- David Harcourt was a camera operator on both Dalek feature films too
No comments:
Post a Comment