Raise the Titanic

Raise the Titanic (1980) is an American adventure film, based on the novel Light the Titanic! by Clive Cussler. The film was directed by Jerry Jameson and produced byLew Grade's ITC Entertainment. The film stars Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, and Alec Guinness.

The film brought little in the cinemas and got negative reviews from critics.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == A group of Americans leaves for the Atlantic Ocean with the plan to locate the RMS Titanic and mountains. This because a rare mineral on Board would be that the Americans can use for a anti-missile weapon in the arms race with the Soviet Union. The Soviets, however, are also behind the Titanic to for the same reason. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == ===Recordings[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The largest part of the budget of $ 40 million was used to an ancient Greek ocean liner into a copy of the Titanic, and for making a scale model for the underwater scenes. In the film, the wreck of the Titanic represented as a whole, there only after the discovery of the real wreck revealed that the ship was broken in half during the disaster. The underwater scenes with the scale models were filmed in Malta's Mediterranean Film Studios. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">John Barry, who had previously had won Golden Globes and Oscars for his film music, composed the music for the film. The original recordings of these are lost, but Silva Screen Records left in 1999 to re-record everything by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. ===Reception<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Worldwide the film grossed less than $ 7 million on in cinemas, not enough to recoup the production budget. After Edition on video was still 6.8 million dollars earned. Lew Grade, one of the main financiers of the film, would even mockingly have said it would have been cheaper to lower the water level of the Atlantic Ocean.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  The flopping of Raise The Titanic was one of the reasons that Grade withdrew from financing film projects.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Recordings
 * 3.2 Music
 * 3.3 Publication and reception
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links
 * Richard Jordan: Dirk Pitt
 * Jason Robards: Admiral James Sandecker
 * David Selby: Dr. Gene Seagram
 * Anne Archer: Dana Seagram
 * Alec Guinness: John Bigalow

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film also received many negative reviews from critics. Only the music was praised. Clive Cussler was so disappointed with the film, that he has no single movie studio more gave permission to film another one of his books ever. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Raise The Titanic In 1981 was nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards:


 * Worst movie
 * Worst supporting actor
 * Worst scenario