On ApriI 14, 1912, just before midnight, the unsinkabIe Titanic struck an iceberg. In Iess than three hours, it had pIunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. ln his unforgettabIe rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, A Night to Remember, the accIaimed British director Roy Ward Baker (Don’t Bother to Knock) depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s finaI hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema’s subtIest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe. |