Movie Review: A Night to Remember (1958) d. Roy Ward Baker

Cover of the Criterion Collection edition of A Night to Remember (1958) d. Roy Ward Baker

Movie Review

A Night to Remember (1958)

d. Roy Ward Baker

Criterion Collection #7

   Billed as "the best movie ever made about the Titanic disaster" (take that James Cameron), A Night to Remember ultimately may be more memorable for it's low number position in the Criterion Collection: #7!!!  It was enjoyable to watch- every time I watch a Criterion Collection movie from the good old days I am struck anew by how much the digital restoration helps to appreciate the film.   Honestly, the ease that the Criterion Channel has brought to the watching experience makes me question why I would ever watch a contemporary film again.  

  One of the takeaways from this fact-based film is that a major cause of the disaster was the overloading of the telegraph office with orders from the finicky first class passengers, buying and selling stock, making travel arrangements, so that a warning from a nearby ship about an iceberg in front of them was ignored, and, in fact, never read.