The Memory of Eva Ryker is a 1980 American television drama film starring Natalie Wood, Robert Foxworth and Ralph Bellamy. It was produced by Irwin Allen and directed by Walter Grauman. The film premiered on CBS on May 7, 1980.
It was based on a 1978 novel by Donald Stanwood which was originally set on the Titanic.Prose Fine and Foul New York Times 5 Mar 1978: BR6.
Filming took place in late 1979.
Plot A woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a cruise ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of her mother's death, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the woman.
Cast Natalie Wood as Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker Robert Foxworth as Norman Hall Ralph Bellamy as William E. Ryker Roddy McDowall as MacFarland Bradford Dillman as Jason Eddington Jean-Pierre Aumont as Inspector Laurier Mel Ferrer as Dr. Sanford Peter Graves as Mike Rogers Morgan Fairchild as Lisa Eddington Robert Hogan as J.H. Martin Vince Howard as Albert Tonya Crowe as Eva as a child
References
External links Memory of Eva Ryker at IMDb The Memory of Eva Ryker at BFI The Memory of Eva Ryker at Irwin Allen Review of novel at Kirkus Review of film at Washington Post