Raise the Titanic (film)
Introduction


***Raise the Titanic*** is a 1980 [adventure film](/wiki/Adventure_film "Adventure film") produced by [Lew Grade](/wiki/Lew_Grade%2C_Baron_Grade "Lew Grade, Baron Grade")'s [ITC Entertainment](/wiki/ITC_Entertainment "ITC Entertainment") and directed by [Jerry Jameson](/wiki/Jerry_Jameson "Jerry Jameson"). The film, written by Eric Hughes (adaptation) and [Adam Kennedy](/wiki/Adam_Kennedy_%28actor%29 "Adam Kennedy (actor)") (screenplay), is based on the 1976 [book of the same name](/wiki/Raise_the_Titanic%21 "Raise the Titanic!") by [Clive Cussler](/wiki/Clive_Cussler "Clive Cussler"). The storyline concerns a plan to recover  to obtain cargo valuable to [Cold War](/wiki/Cold_War "Cold War") [hegemony](/wiki/Hegemony "Hegemony").

The film stars [Jason Robards](/wiki/Jason_Robards "Jason Robards"), [Richard Jordan](/wiki/Richard_Jordan "Richard Jordan"), [David Selby](/wiki/David_Selby "David Selby"), [Anne Archer](/wiki/Anne_Archer "Anne Archer"), and [Alec Guinness](/wiki/Alec_Guinness "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](/wiki/Lew_Grade "Lew Grade") later remarked "it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic".


Is there a plan to recover the entire Titanic?