Raise the Titanic (1980)

Directed by

Jerry Jameson

Genre

action film, adventure film, science fiction film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 117 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team plans to raise the wreck of the Titanic to retrieve a mineral that could give one side an advantage in the Cold War. The story follows their efforts at sea and the political tensions that drive the mission.

slowdatedambitiousbleakseriousunderstatedcold war era

What happens

Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson. The film, written by Eric Hughes (adaptation) and Adam Kennedy (screenplay), is based on the 1976 book of the same name by Clive Cussler. The storyline concerns a plan to recover the RMS Titanic to obtain cargo valuable to Cold War hegemony. The film stars Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, and Alec Guinness. It received mixed reviews by critics and audiences and proved to be a failure at the box office, grossing about $7 million against an estimated $35 million budget. Producer Lew Grade later remarked that "it would be cheaper to lower the Atlantic". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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