Raise the Titanic

Year:

1980

Duration:

115 min | Canada:113 min (Ontario) | Australia:119 min (DVD)

Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller | Adventure

IMDB rate:

4.6

Director:

Jerry Jameson

Awards:

3 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1980-08-01

Filming Locations: USA

Earnings

Budget: $36,000,000

Gross: $7,000,000 (USA) Rentals $6,800,000 (USA)

Cast

Actor

Character

Elya Baskin

Richard Jordan

Raise the Titanic

Jason Robards

Admiral James Sandecker

David Selby

Dr. Gene Seagram

Anne Archer

Dana Archibald

Alec Guinness

John Bigalow

Bo Brundin

Captain Prevlov

M. Emmet Walsh

Master Chief Vinnie Walker

J.D. Cannon

Captain Joe Burke

Norman Bartold

Admiral Kemper

Dirk Blocker

Merker

Robert Broyles

Willis

Paul Carr

CIA Director Nicholson

Michael C. Gwynne

Bohannon

Harvey Lewis

Kiel

Charles Macaulay

General Dale Busby

Stewart Moss

Koplin

Michael Pataki

Munk

Marvin Silbersher

Soviet Ambassador Antonov

Mark L. Taylor

Spence

Maurice Kowalewski

Dr. Silverstein

Nancy Nevinson

Sarah Martindale

Trent Dolan

Isbell

Paul Tuerpe

Klink

Sander Vanocur

Commentator

Ken Place

Drummer

Michael Ensign

Lieutenant Northacker

Craig Shreeve

Gunther

Brendan Burns

Carter

Jonathan Moore

Captain Parotkin

George Whiteman

Beck

Hilly Hicks

Woodson

Mike Kulcsar

Russian Sentry

Alexander Firsow

Sloyuk

Mark Hammer

Polevoi

Ron David

Reporter #2

Franchelle Stewart Dorn

Reporter #3

Jon-Claire Lee

Reporter #4 (as Claire Lee)

Norvell McDonald

Reporter #5

Jim Scopelitis

Reporter #6

Gabrielle DeCuir

Reporter #7 (as Gabrielle DeCuir-Carr)

James W. Gavin

Helicopter Pilot

Bert Drake

Helicopter Passenger

Nicos Savalas

Welch

Roy Evans

Gravedigger #1

Tom Curnow

Gravedigger #2

Clive Cussler

Bearded Reporter (uncredited)

Garth Inns

Safe Cutter (uncredited)

Candyce Martin

Extra (uncredited)

Nik Mescherski

Man at Soviet Embassy (uncredited)

Steve Moriarty

News Conference Reporter (uncredited)

Milton Selzer

Dr. Vogel (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

This film was shot in 1978 but did not launch into theaters until 1980, a production period that spanned around two-and-a-half years, similar to that of Titanic (1997). As such, the film was first released about four years afters its source novel "Raise the Titanic!" by Clive Cussler was first published in 1976. The book was Cussler's first best-seller. The film's title drops the exclamation mark from the book's title.

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The film was made and released about sixty-eight years after the RMS Titanic sunk in 1912. The film was made and released about seventeen years before the James Cameron Oscar winning film Titanic (1997), this film's critical and commercial failure was the cause of some initial doubt around the development of the Cameron film.

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Due to this picture's failure at the box-office, the movie has been cited as one of the reasons that Lew Grade withdrew from the movie business. Grade originally turned down the project, but after the original director left and the script was re-written, Grade saw the film as the start of a potential James Bond-like franchise with lead character Dirk Pitt and subsequently bought the rights.

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Goofs

When Deep Quest gets trapped in the Titanic's skylight, the other submarine changes from the Sea Cliff to the Turtle and back.

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When Capt. Prevlov flies over and boards the Titanic, he arrives in a Bell "Huey" UH-1H painted drab olive with the Red Communist Star on the side. The Soviet Navy would not use US helicopters.

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When the team examines the horn retrieved from the wreck, they note that the instrument was presented to its owner after "three years service on the Olympic". The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, was launched in 1910 and entered service in 1911. No one could've served 3 years on it by 1912, when the Titanic sank.

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Quotes

Dr. Gene Seagram: What's so funny?

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John Bigalow: What a lovely thing she was... Standing as high in the water as one of your skyscrapers, longer than two rugby fields, and furnishings to match the finest mansions in England. She was one of a kind, no question about it, and God himself, they said, couldn't sink her. Then in two hours she was gone... and fifteen hundred souls with her.

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John Bigalow: It's an odd thing, you know. I've had a few ships shot out from under me. More than my share. Three in the 1914-18 fracas, and two in 39-45. But all anybody ever asks me about is the Titanic.

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Faq

Q

Can the Titanic be raised?

A

The problem with lifting anything from that far below the surface of the water with balloons is the immense pressure of at least four tons per square inch. Just how would it be possible to inflate a balloon? Then how do you attach the tens of thousands of balloons to the ship without ripping whats left of the metal to pieces? And how on earth do you apply enough lift to get Titanic out of 70 feet of mud?

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