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The Marchioness Disaster
The Marchioness Disaster
Release: 2008-11-01
·Runtime: 95m
·★ 5.5
TV Movie
A factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the river Thames in August 1989, which killed over 50 people. The film was due to be broadcast by ITV in 2007 but complaints from some of the families of the victims led to it being withdrawn ahead of transmission. It has never been broadcast in the UK, but has been screened in France.
Cast
John Salthouse
as John Perks
Maureen Bennett
as Jackie James
Caroline Wildi
as Maddie Anderton
Liam Noble
as Terence Blayney
John Benfield
as Peter Butcher
Robert Daws
as Cannon John Jeffrey
Heather Tobias
as Marie Perks
Sophia Di Martino
as Erika Spotswood
Daniel Casey
as Douglas Henderson
Lisa Jackson
as Odette Penwarden
Barbara Flynn
as Eileen Dallaglio
Charley Speed
as Stephen Perks
Ellen Thomas
as Linda Hunt
Orlando Wells
as Ian Philpott, Iain Philpott