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Release Date:
1 August 1980 (USA) moreTagline:
They've found the Titanic. There's just one thing left to do... morePlot:
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
3 nominations moreUser Comments:
It was a dream - they raised it! See it for what it is! more (58 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jason Robards | ... | Admiral James Sandecker | |
| Richard Jordan | ... | Dirk Pitt | |
| 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 | |
| Elya Baskin | ... | Marganin | |
| Dirk Blocker | ... | Merker | |
| Robert Broyles | ... | Willis | |
| Paul Carr | ... | CIA Director Nicholson | |
| Michael C. Gwynne | ... | Bohannon | |
| Harvey Lewis | ... | Kiel |
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Also Known As:
La guerre des abîmes (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]A Guerra dos Abismos (Portugal) [pt]
Blitz nell'oceano (Italy) [it]
Hæv Titanic (Denmark) [da]
Hebt die Titanic (West Germany) [de]
Lyft Titanic (Sweden) [sv]
Nostakaa Titanic! (Finland) [fi]
Rescaten el Titanic (Spain) [es]
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
115 min | Canada:113 min (Ontario) | Australia:119 min (DVD)Language:
EnglishColor:
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2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:L | Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Norway:12 (1981) | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PGFilming Locations:
Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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A model of the Titanic was built at a cost of $350,000. When it was finished, it was discovered that it was too big for the tank in which it was to be filmed. An additional, bigger tank had to be built, at a cost of $6 million. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: In reality, Titanic's masts and funnels were ripped off and the Grand Staircase's dome was imploded. moreQuotes:
Dirk Pitt: If anything goes wrong, we lose two men and if we don't do anything we lose them anyway. They've got two chances to die and one to live. moreFAQ
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I have never understood the degree of ire, dislike, contempt and scorn heaped upon this movie. A multi million dollar turkey at the box office which virtually sank Lord Lew Grade and one that has provided film critics with cheap laughs ever since. I sit here this morning, having sat through ZOOLANDER last night, watching a complacent, pre-programmed brain-dead audience guffaw itself senseless, contributing another truck load of dollars to Ben Stiller's superannuation fund and you know, I wonder about RAISE THE TITANIC. What has happened to sentiment, simplicity, the ultimately simple values in life?
Sure, RAISE THE TITANIC captures none of the power of Cussler's novel, but I don't really care! Yeah, they got the funnel configuration shot to hell, the underwater model as it surfaces looks much like the little rubber boat I used to play with in the bath as a child, and David Selby has the animal magnetism of Osama bin Laden, but I'd like to tell you something. Perhaps because I maintained a fascination with the TITANIC ever since I was a child and dreamed of just how it must have been that night, when watching that absolutely awesome scene in RAISE THE TITANIC as the great ship broke the surface I have never in my life been so emotionally moved. Tears just ran down my face and I cried like a child. When I got home that night my wife asked me what was wrong. I couldn't talk about it and was never able to explain, and you people reading this want to believe it, I am the absolute last guy you would consider to be a wuss! How anyone could have witnessed that scene in the theater and NOT been moved I could never understand.
So many memorable things in the film. Titanic survivor, Sir Alec Guinness' touching cameo in the pub when he gives Dirk Pitt (the late Richard Jordan) the white star flag that he removed from the stern the night the great ship foundered, and which he wanted replaced if they were ever to raise it from the bottom of the Atlantic. The inarguably realistic scene when Jordan and his crew members finally discover the wreck on the bottom, played out against John Barry's ultimately moving musical score, the best he wrote for ANY film. The external shots of the ship once it has been raised (Way better I thought than Cameron's digitised TITANIC) and the internal shots of the gymnasium still dripping with water. Finally, the wonderful scenes as it is towed into New York harbor to complete its (then) 68-year journey. True, the last twenty minutes or so were all downhill, but nothing can detract from what went before.
Worst thing they ever did was to FIND the wreck! A dream died that day!