🔴𝙐𝙎 𝙉𝙖𝙫𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙃𝙈𝙎 𝙏𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙘🔴𝓡𝓾𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓼 Want Her💣 Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlantic grave. Raise the Titanic is an adaptation of the novel by Clive Cussler. This was the first movie from the Clive Cussler books.
In its transition to the big screen however, most of the intricate cold war plotting didn't make it into the movie. That is a shame. I really have enjoyed reading Clive Cussler's books over the years. Sahara 2005 is another movie based upon one of his books. It is reported that Cussler did not like either of these two movies. I really do like the top 2 actors: Jason Robards & Richard Jordan. As for Sahara 2005 I really do like this movie and I have it. They were very accurate in some respects in this movie. The depth of the Titanic was almost spot on. You need to remember when watching this movie when it was made in 1980 the Titanic had "Not" been found as yet. So they had no idea that the Titanic had broken up in sinking. Most believed the ship went down intact until Robert Ballard found the Titanic a number of years later. John Barry did a excellent job with the background music. It is almost James Bond like. In watching Raise The Titanic it is missing the Steve Zahn side kick as in Sahara 2005. Zahn helped greatly to make Sahara 2005 a great movie with Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt. Raise The Titanic is much slower in action compared to Sahara 2005, but could have been much better. The scene where the Titanic begins to rise from the ocean bottom is pretty cool.
Imagine is this were possible to do with say the battleship Bismarck or the battleship Yamato in real life??? It would be the biggest blockbuster show on cable TV for centuries to come.... Only over 2,000 German sailors went down with the Bismarck and over 3,000 Japanese sailors were lost with the Yamato. These I consider as the law does to be "war graves". The moral problem it would be a violation of a "grave" at sea and with the two battleships it would be violating {War Graves} at sea. Still it was chilling to see the Titanic break the surface of the ocean in this movie with the background music. Towards the end of the movie the surprise the US Navy had for the Soviet Navy was like in a Bond movie as well. Dirk Pitt is no way in comparison to James Bond, but if Hollywood had any vision of the future they could have made him Bond's almost - equal.... Just think how cool it would be where the US were towing the HMS Titanic into New York Harbor 68 or 110 years after her sinking~~~!!! The plot twist at the end of the movie makes it worth watching...
Stars: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby and many other fine actors.
A bit of movie trivia.
01: This movie was surprisingly accurate on one point, though they didn't know it at the time. Computer displays in the movie show the Titanic resting at a depth of 12,347 feet. When the wreck was discovered in 1985, it was resting at a depth of 12,415 feet.
02: A model of the R.M.S. Titanic was built for $350,000. When it was finished, it was too big for its tank. A bigger tank had to be built, for $6 million. This tank could hold 40 million liters (10,566,882 gallons) of water, and it was built next to the smaller tank, which had been used for several movies. Reportedly, the total cost of $6 million was $1 million less than the cost to build the original R.M.S. Titanic. Adjusted for inflation, the cost would have been over $180 million as of 2018.
03: The 55-foot model of the R.M.S. Titanic used for the refloating scenes was constructed and first floated at CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California, before being shipped to Malta for filming. Its maiden sailing took place in the Gilligan's Island Lagoon.
04: The U.S. salvage fleet was portrayed by the U.S. Navy's U.S.S. Denver, U.S.S. Schenectady and U.S.S. Carpenter in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, while the Russian ship was portrayed by the C.S. Long Lines. In total, these vessels used around $22,000 U.S. of diesel fuel per filming day, or around $64,000 U.S. per day in 2016 dollars.
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