Raise the Titanic is a 1980 American big budget adventure film by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment, directed by Jerry Jameson and written by Eric Hughes and Adam Kennedy . The film stars Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, and Alec Guinness. The film's tagline was "Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on earth could reach her. Now—you will be there when we RAISE THE TITANIC". The film was inspired by Clive Cussler's popular novel Raise the Titanic!. The film, however, was poorly received by critics and proved to be a box office bomb,... losing most of its $40 million estimated budget. The film only grossed about $7 million in box office revenue plus $6.8 million in rentals, totaling $13.8 million altogether. Lew Grade, one of its major backers, is famously said to have remarked that it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic Ocean. Raise The Titanic, along with other contemporary flops, has been credited with prompting Grade's withdrawal from continued involvement with the film industry.
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| Release date: | August 1, 1980 |
| Directed by: | Jerry Jameson |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Martin Starger, Lew Grade, William Fry |
| Editor: | J. Terry Williams, Robert F. Shugrue |
| Music by: | John Barry |
| Cinematography: | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Screenplay by: | Adam Kennedy, Adam Kennedy, Eric Hughes |
| Estimated budget: | $36,000,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure |