Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson. The film, written by Eric Hughes (adaptation) and Adam Kennedy (screenplay), is based on the 1976 book of the same name by Clive Cussler. The storyline concerns a plan to recover RMS Titanic to obtain cargo valuable to Cold War hegemony.
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00:00What a lovely thing she was, standing as high in the water as one of your skyscrapers.
00:12And God himself, they said, couldn't sink her.
00:16Then in two hours she was gone, and 1,500 souls with her.
00:21Control, this is Deep Quest at 8,000 feet. Negative contacts.
00:26This is Turtle. No contacts.
00:28No.
00:30I think we hit the jackpot.
00:51It's at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:53You're talking about 12,500 feet underwater.
00:56Which leaves us with only one choice.
01:00Are you talking about raising the Titanic?
01:05Yeah.
01:06It's the biggest job with the highest stakes anybody ever dreamt of.
01:10If there's a leak, we have to stop it.
01:27What do you mean by a leak? I don't even know what you're talking about.
01:30It was a secret. That's what I'm telling you. Nobody knew about it.
01:34This is Control. Do not exceed 12,000 foot depth limit. Help.
01:38It's a starfish. We're running by the surface. Over.
01:41Starfish.
01:42It's gone dead.
01:43She's going down fast. They've got to lose some weight.
01:45Release that to him, please.
01:47I took this job on two conditions.
01:52One, that I handle a salvage end of it my way, and two, that you stay out of my hair.
01:56You're going to crush the Deep Quest.
02:01Indicates electrical fire on the left.
02:04If we can't cut loose that submersible, we've got to bring up the Titanic.
02:09Target date's two weeks away.
02:11Our target date just got changed.
02:1310, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, mark.
02:43Our target date's two weeks away.