The Marchioness Disaster
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The film was due to be broadcast by ITV in 2007 but complaints from some of the families of the victims led to it being withdrawn ahead of transmission.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.
Release Date: 2008-11-01
TV Movie
Casts
John Benfield
as Peter Butcher
Robert Daws
as Cannon John Jeffrey
Barbara Flynn
as Eileen Dallaglio
John Salthouse
as John Perks
Heather Tobias
as Marie Perks
Sophia Di Martino
as Erika Spotswood
Ellen Thomas
as Linda Hunt
Charley Speed
as Stephen Perks
Daniel Casey
as Douglas Henderson
Liam Noble
as Terence Blayney
