Raise The Titanic
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- Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson. The film, which was written by Eric Hughes and Adam Kennedy, was based on the book of the same name by Clive Cussler
The film opens in Northern Siberia where an American spy breaks into an old mine where he discovers the frozen body of an US Army sergeant. Next to the corpse is a newspaper from 1912. Using a radiation meter, the spy discovers that the mineral he seeks was there. He is then chased away by Soviet forces.
US intelligence soon find out that boxes of the raw mineral were loaded onto the Belfast-built RMS Titanic by an American in April 1912. A search is then conducted in North Atlantic to locate the sunken ocean liner. It is aided by one of the Titanic's last survivors who explains he was also the last person to see the American alive. Just before the Titanic foundered, the sailor said he locked the man inside the ship's vault containing the boxes of mineral, his last words being "thank god for Southby!"
Experts then begin the dangerous job of raising the famous ship from the seabed, in which one of the submersibles, Starfish, experiences a cabin flood and implodes. Another submersible, the Deep Quest, experiences a battery shortage, which causes its manipulator arm to become locked onto the Titanic wreckage.
Eventually the rusting Titanic is brought to the surface using compressed air tanks and buoyancy aids. The ship is then towed to a dry dock in New York - its original destination. It turns out no expense is being spared because the mineral that is sought will be used as the power source in a weapons system that could take down any missile entering US airspace. In response, the USSR challenges the United States over the salvage of the ship because they claim the mineral was taken illegally from their land. On entering the watertight vault, the salvage team discover the mummified remains of the American, but no mineral! The boxes are just full of sand. It soon transpires the clue was in those final words. The American had arranged a fake burial in a graveyard in "Southby", England prior to sailing back to the United States on the Titanic. The group decides to leave the mineral in the grave because they agree its existence would destabilise the status quo that maintains the peace between the West and the Soviet Union. - Zábava
I know that a lot of people think this is a bad movie, but I like it because to me it represents what everyone wanted the wreck of Titanic to be like. Before the wreck was discovered in 1985, most people believed that the Ship sank in one piece and was for the most part preserved on the ocean floor. Obviously this was proven not to be the case on both counts. But I think it's a great what if movie.
Agreed. I just wish they had not rushed the script through and would have worked it as well as the special effects. Following the book would have made for a much better story.
@@Dallas_K maybe the film makers could make a raise the britannic movie and not rush it
Good movie, but they showed the Titanic as a small ship in the movie, but it was much bigger
What if the Titanic was recovered from the ocean floor and completed it's voyage. 68 year delay but it got there and the souls that lost there lives finally had closure.
I mean the bow is somewhat fine th3 stern on the other hand....
I was a kid when this film came out. Damn the critics. I love it.
Totally agree!
Great music!
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree The music used in some scenes is taken from a few of the underwater scenes from the James Bond movies.
@@majormanfredrex - It might sound that way, but the soundtrack to this movie is entirely original. The reason it sounds very "Bond"-like is because "Raise The Titanic" was scored by John Barry, the composer responsible for almost all the Bond scores from the beginning up until 1987's "The Living Daylights". As a young Titanic obsessive, I loved this film when I was a kid too, but with adult eyes I have to concur that it is hobbled by a truly dreadful script and direction which gives every indication that Jerry Jameson was in over his head. Nostalgia aside, I have to concur that the score (which IMO ranks with Barry's very best) and the model/practical effects shots and sequences (which are first-rate for the time) are probably the only reasons I'll still watch it today.
My father worked on a tiny bit of this film , he flew the helicopter that was used to get the aerial shot of St Ives . He spent a pleasant evening with Sir Alec in a pub talking about fishing 😊
That's fantastic!
Awesum
Amazing, such a great piece of trivia.
That's so cool
Stop the cap no body is going tho believe you bruh
Rest In Peace Clive Cussler.. An utterly brilliant author who despite not liking this movie, created Stories that will live on with characters that were bought to life in every book that is still read to this day. Personally, I like the movie, but fell in love with the books! May Dirk Pitt, Rudi Gunn, Al Giordino, Admiral Sandecker all live forever!
EXCELLENT WORDS
Agreed - I first came across Cussler in October 1979, when I purchased "VIXEN-03" at Birmingham New street station before a journey. Brilliant writing in those days, although I believe that he went off the boil when he began collaborating with Paul Kempicos. "Dragon" was another excellent "might have been" alternate-universe novel from Cussler.
agreed, I have most of his books,
What do you mean went off the boil
I’ve never read a book of Clive’s admittedly
I didn't even realise Cussler had passed away, I still have some of the Dirk Pitt novels. Looks like I'll have to read them again at some point.
For all those picking holes and faults with the film, you're ALL missing 1 major fact. THIS IS A FILM AND NOT A DOCUMENTARY. Get a friggin' grip and have a word with yourself.
Tell them like it is. Is it possible to do a remake now that we know what condition the Titanic is actually in?
MAnuscript421 They'd have to raise the stern only or some such thing....
No, I mean like book description from Clive Cussler's novel.
I will tell you this, raise the Titanic was filmed 5 years before the ship's discovery in 1985 which was when the theory that the ship sank intact ended.
John Barrys Score really propells this above Average!
What I found interesting about Clive Cussler's 1976 book Raise The Titanic was that he was off by just one month in predicting when the Titanic would be located.
He also predicted a mini sub would implode next to it!! Uncanny!
@@madquest8 - That didn't happen in the novel. It's been many years since I last read it, but I definitely remember the discovery narrative taking maybe a chapter or two at most - Dirk Pitt is Clive Cussler's "Marty Stu", and as such Cussler is almost allergic to writing any scenario in which Pitt is either out of his depth or entirely at the mercy of other people or events. That said, and with respect, I have to say I'm a little uncomfortable with how blase your recent comments regarding the OceanGate submersible loss come across, and as such I'm going to add that while the movie *does* feature a submersible implosion, it happened approximately 10 miles away from the Titanic wreck site, as stated at 42:13 .
@@madquest8 as far as predictions go, look up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility published in 1898
I know what critics say but the scene where they actually find it… I like to think that that’s exactly how the real guys reacted as they found it when it came out of the dark
I have a strange love for this movie almost in spite of itself. Nothing about it is conceivable, and yet John Barry's score and the "what-if" speculation get me sentimental and drawn to it. The great actors in it don't hurt either.
I had a feeling it would be a James Bond composer because some musical pieces in there sounded very much like from a Bond movie.
Sadly the original recording of the music was lost in a Heathrow warehouse many moons ago, although recreations have been made.
A very emotional film that everyone wanted to be right.
It was filmed very well and the raising was....YES! she's up..... I wished too it was right.... then reality set in, in 1985
I was enthralled with the Titanic story as a child. When this movie came out, I loved it. It made me a fan of the book's author, Clive Cussler, as well. When she was finally discovered five years later, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed it had broken in two and was unable to be lifted to the surface like the movie depicted.
Ah well.
Good memories anyway.
Her sister ship sank as well, apparently, off Greece. Seems that ships go down all the time. The Titanic was only interesting because of the idiot captain who ignored foul weather warnings and who never gave the lookouts binoculars.
The weather was not foul and a captain given command of the Whitestar Lines flag shop would not be an idiot.
The captain did order full steam ahead in pursuit of the ribbon…..knew the crows nest had no binoculars and was told there were icebergs on it course …….so a little idiotic …..
@@BleachDemon99 the story that I understand is that the owner of the ship ordered the speed, the binocular story you put forward needs some sort of citation. Yes I know that lookouts were not issued with binoculars but do we know fot sure the captain knew?
@@Woodman-Spare-that-treethe sea was dead calm that night. Plus the company put pressure on the Captain to arrive in New York a day early. He was at some fault but he wasn’t to blame for what happened. It was the company that decided not put enough life boats on the Titanic because they thought they would obstruct the view for the first class passengers. I can’t even imagine what the Captain went through that night. Seeing his beautiful ship sinking and knowing most passengers were going to die.
Seeing it forty-tree years later, it is a much better film that half of the rubbish blockbusters made in the last 30 years, where CGI literally "eat" the actors. A good cast and good locations still make it an entertaining film, which was then unfairly underrated. It's not one of my favourites, but this is the third time I have seen it from beginning to end.
Figuratively
CGI cannot ‘literally’ eat anything
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Agreed... and it has an imploding sub, so you can see what happened to the Titan! LOL
@@madquest8proper lols
You've only watched this film _three_ times...?! 😮
How many times have you read the novel, listened to it read in audio books?! 😮 😮 ..,heard the theme music ❤❤❤
/ added it to your playlist...?! 😮 ❤❤❤
I remember as a kid this movie had a habit of always being on tv in the mid to late 80’s, and was just hooked with it.
I know the critics hate it and time has not been good to it, but it’s an enjoyable movie to watch, and on the very rare occasions it is on tv these days, even if 20 minutes to go, I will stick with it to the end
I was hooked on titanic as a kid, watched this with my Dad.....
Best film ever for that
Love all the books by the late Clive Cussler. And Richard Jordan will always be my Dirk Pitt
Critics keep in mind a couple of facts. First this 1980 movie is based on a 1976 novel by Clive Cussler. Cussler's novels are quite entertaining (he's one of my favorite authors), but they are not known for their technical or historical accuracy. The second is that when this was written no one really had any idea what condition the Titanic was in.
In fact Arthur C. Clarke's novel "Imperial Earth", which came out in 75 also had a risen Titanic in New York harbor, and Clarke was a serious science fiction author who wouldn't have had such a plot element unless he thought it was at least possible.
"Raise the Titanic" is like all of Cussler's works. Enjoy them for the fun ride they are, but don't take them too seriously.
I felt that way too, until in one book he had the US randomly annex Canada, and no one batting an eye because the US had a piece of paper that supposedly gave Canada to the US back in the 19th Century... Yeah, no.
@@trekaddict That was kind of silly, and was never brought up again in any of his other novels. I believe that novel was one of the earlier ones, "Night Probe".
John Barry did a great job composing the movie's soundtrack.
Love it.
It's just beautiful ❤
Great movie. Great premise. RIP Richard Jordan, great Actor.
I was Titanic obsessed as a kid and remember seeing this film after they had discovered her, even knowing it could never happen I always wondered what it would be like to see her finish her maiden voyage. Me and hubby were talking about this film and knew I had to watch it again. Thanks for uploading it.
The film was science fiction using a real event, however at 31 minutes I always choke up, Alec Guinness hit the feels just right.
"...if you do manage to bring her up... Perhaps you can put this on her...
Where it belongs." Rest In Peace Sir Alec.
Fun Fact: This movie mirrors the actual discovery of Titanic in one way. The US Navy agreed to help finance and provide material aid to Robert Ballard's expedition on the condition that he also explore the wrecks of the USS Thresher and Scorpion, using the Titanic as a political cover.
Two subs seacliff and turtle are sister subs of Alvin who first dived the Titanic.
@@kevinchun5242 - But only the retrofitted Alvin was certified to depths that could reach her.
Another John Barry soundtrack masterpiece
Sadly the master tapes are missing.
The scene with Alec Guinness was filmed in St.Ives in Cornwall & so was the scene at the graveyard, a town I know very well . The place still looks the same today & the pub you see the actors walking towards is still there.
The way Alec is dressed just reminds me so much of my grandad, he was a fisherman, i swear he even wore the same type of cap too!
So fitting! JohnLe Carre lived in Cornwall & Alec Guinness was George Smiley. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy the BBC series was filmed in 1979.
Nice peace of music when the ship comes up all ways makes me think of my rip bro
If the Titanic wasnt discovered this movie's plot would have probably held up until today.
John Barry Prendergast superb composer of so many great film music scores , RIP master
A group of men on a submarine that implodes killing them while diving down to the Titanic. Life imitating art…
The Starfish had men hoping to find "something" but they hadn't yet been told what...
Titan's so-called "crew" were adventuring millionaires (& a 19yo son of one) lured into spending a fortune by the hubris of a deluded "inventor" whose goal in life was to be remembered for breaking rules...
Rest In Peace
Monsieur PH Nargeolet,
Mr,Hamish Harding,
Mr S,Dawood & Mr S.Dawood.
(As for Stockton Rush...😡)
What I really like about these old films is not every character has to be a comedian, every other line isn't a 'one liner'.
The scene of the submersible imploding kind've hits home today following recent events of the Titan sub disaster.
True, yet it does show more movie fiction. Even assuming a vessel is strong enough to not instantly implode at the tiniest breach, a jet of water at that depth/pressure would cut them to pieces.
Yeah, youtube algorithm knows what vids to put in my feed.
John Barry, what a genius. nothing and no one will ever come close to him. unmissable
Seeing the twin towers and the titanic in the same shot gave me goosebumps
John Barry's best work IMO. It's a real shame the recordings of the original soundtrack were lost.
Maybe .. but the reissue is pretty amazing and contains the whole film score. I have it and it’s glorious! One of my fave scores .. this and ‘Playing By Heart’.
I was absolutely mesmerised by this film when I was little.
What happened to Starfish looks to have happened in real life. Rip to those who lost there lives.
* their
Difference being their wouldn’t have been prior flooding and the subs failure would have been instantaneous and without warning, in the same way that a balloon fails….
I had forgotten about this one. If you manage to disregard everything we know now, it's actually still a half decent movie.
My great grandmother had a ticket for the titanic however as luck would have it she missed the last boarding call. How strange is that.
I love the music
That John Barry soundtrack though! ❤
Excellent John Barry Score!!!
It was one of my Dad's favorites. It is a movie we watched together.
Another epic score from John Barry. Really evocative and atmospheric.
still like this movie, you cant help but feel a sadness when the Titanic hits the surface, i think its knowing now that could never be, its not a bad movie its just based on what people hoped for and not what we found years later in reality, RIP Titanic
Titanic Wasn't Dead But Yet This movie Titanic is Scrapped
If only we could raise the Titanic ❤️
FOR WHAT?!
Well. We did manage to raise bits and pieces of it. Some metal walls that fallen off or the furniture, clothing and plates and cutlery. These are also part of the ship.
27:53 😁😁....how nice is to see you again Obi-wan.... May The Force be with You !!! 😁😁😁
"if u manage to bring her up would u mind putting it back where it belongs" that is a kick to the balls right there
Much underated movie , the musical score is one of the best
You have to admit that this is better than Titanic II lol xD
How did Titanic ll make it screen? That film was so dire.
For those who dont know- this was made years before russ ballard found the wreckage and found out it was in pieces and couldnt be raised. but the movie itself is great
Watching this now, after the events of the past week, it really hits differently.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the brave crew of the tragically lost submersible 'Starfish'. May they rest in peace.
LOL
Show me solid proof anything happened at all.
@@madquest8 - to laugh at that comment you are truly MAD
@@F4Insight-uq6nt - if you are talking about the submersible where a young 19 year old died - what the hell planet are you on
@@mudpyz Id ignore them, the world has some sick and twisted people out there.
The graveyard is in St Ives Cornwall, not far from the Sloop inn, all great stuff, I loved the film.
balnoon cemetery.
Very enjoyable film, the moment the ship emerged from the sea was brilliant. 😎😎😎😎
The special effects by Wally Veevers are still gorgeous.
37:52 almost half a century later this scene of Starfish had happened with OceanGate Titan. And this time the real world incident was a tourist submarine not a U.S Navy submersible.
How prophetic of the Titan implosion in 2023. How lamentable. Fantastic movie. John Barry did music for Out of Africa and the James Bond themes - you can hear this one belongs in the family of his arrangements. Bravo.
Barry did not write the Bond theme, but he did arrange it. Very different things.
John Barry also composed the music for 'Somewhere In Time's starring the sadly late Christopher Reeve, & Jane Seymour* (*sp?)
Really enjoyed this ...thank you....
I had been studying for a final at university and decided to go out to a movie in order to take my mind off it...low and behold Raise The Titanic on the big screen...love it and the special effects considering it was 1980...began a love affair with Clive Cussler novels...
When Robert Ballard found the RMS Titanic in 1985 he was actually on a covert mission for the US Navy to use his deep submersibles to find two sunk US Submarines to study the effect their nuclear reactors were having on the envirronment. And also to help determine the cause of the sinkings. He was told after he had completed his mission if he had time he could go look for the Titanic which was supposed to be somewhere between the sites of the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion.
Just sayin.
Thank you for the upload. Great old film well done for the 1980's before the tech we have these days, and great John Barry Music. Thanks.
This is one of my favourite movies.
For its time a great movie!!!
Just a really good adventure film, the music is very 'James Bond' in places, love it!
"It's only a model!"
Camelot!
Shh! 🤣🤣
And 5 years later, they actually found it !
I believe the producer said of this film, "It was so expensive, it would have been cheaper to lower the ocean". Classic line.
Thank you so much MasterVideo Studios for uploading this. I remember enjoying this movie as a child 25 years ago and have never quite understood why it is considered a disaster, as from the isolated bits and pieces I've seen since, it looks quite impressive. Watching it again all the way through, it's doesn't work as art (because although it touches on themes like the Cold War and nostalgia for a lost age, it never really has anything to say about them) and isn't good drama either (because too many of the plot developments are without consequences, especially the 'relationship' scenes). But for the first half or so it's well made and thoroughly enjoyable as an adventure yarn about a difficult sea mission. The problem is certainly not that it would in reality be impossible to re-float the ship because it was split in two (after all, it also currently impossible to put human beings on Mars and that has been done in plenty of popular movies) - that's what fiction's for. The problem is that in the second half all of the painstaking effort that has gone into making the details of the mission halfway convincing are abandoned. The Titanic is raised early - apparently all it took was a few bombs; you never see the flotation tanks being attached to the ship or the water being pumped out - so that the last quarter of the movie can be about resolving the 'byzanium' plot which was never exciting anyway (byzanium will end Mutually Assured Destruction - so basically we have a contest between the US and USSR about who will be the first to achieve world peace). So with that unsatisfactory end, what you are left with is a suspenseful first half, competent performances and some great visuals held together by a beguiling John Barry score. Rather like the 1976 version of King Kong. But I can understand people loving it just because they love the Titanic rather than because it's a good movie. John Richardson's model work is stunning - that shot of the ship breaking the surface is so good, you get to see it twice!
I have to watch the actual raising of the ship more than once because I'm too busy bawling my eyes out to see it clearly the first few times!
Sheds a tear...hey who left .....oh never mind Only true Titanic enthusiasts cry over a film like this
There seems to be a snobbish adage which rears its head from time to time being, “it’s not as good as the book!” I hadn’t read the book before seeing it and thought it was a great movie. I have since read the book and every other book Clive Cussler wrote and thoroughly enjoyed them, so with hindsight, I reckon this movie done its job admirably. It created another diehard fan of Cussler’s incredible output, a master of his craft!
I like the film,love the part in Cornwall.ive been to the pub there,the sloop in 👍
I can't remember why but i know that i taped this movie on VHS years ago. Even though its not accurate historically, I thought it was a cool movie. I'm not sure but it also the only movie where Richard Jordan has a lead role. The scenes where the Titanic is brought into New York and the reception it got was really touching.
Isn't this starting to become a cult classic or something? Either way, I love this film. The score of this film helps.
I love this movie
I enjoyed it at the time they never knew she broke in half. Well modern day they did raise the Titanic just a little bit. Its home is Las Vegas now.That was some achievement indeed.
So the exploratory sub in the film is sent down to look at the wreck loses comms and then implodes. RIP OceanGate Titan.
Great film great score nice actors And great story. Deserves lot of credit
My Dad taped this off TV on our Betamax (another archaic wreck) when we were like 7 or something. Didn't even fully appreciate what the Titanic was but it started a love affair for me with the ship!
I love it too, you get carried away and that makes it a good movie xxx
I never got why Cussler was against the movie. It actually does a good job of taking the book into a workable screenplay. (It's cuts down the whole of the back story with the Colorado miners, which takes up most of the first third of the book, here it is reduced down to Pitt telling it in one short scene), it also removes 2 subplots with the President having an affair with the Anne Archer character (who gets a far more reduced part in the movie compared to the novel) and which causes Gene Seagram to have a total mental breakdown. They also changed the ending in that they dig up the grave at the end and the missile system works.
1:26:45 made me cry.. what a tribute to the great White Star Line ❤️ That burgee flag should always be flying high
1:24:48 I would genuinely pass out if I got chance to walk the Grand Staircase and see that domed ceiling. What a stunning piece of history.
i like bit at 1.22.52 where the little guy has been trying to pump the Titanic out for the past 80 years and he is still going must be a world record for holding your breath
Iv never noticed that until I read your comment 😂 why the hell did they put that in 😂
to help them raise it i think lol@@jayrobinson7554
I loved this film, and the fantastic music, by the late John Barry. The scene where the thing surfaces is absolutely astounding.
There have been a hell of a lot of worse films than this, that's for sure!
Wow people's imagination was amazing back in the 80s thinking that titanic looked like that!
Fantastic fantasy adventure, made before the Titanic was found. Transported us back in time
I love the way Americans seem to think the Titanic was an American ship. British designed, built, owned and crewed. Passengers were mostly British and Irish.
Where do you get that idea from?
One of my favourite films and with a great soundtrack with it too! Thank you for uploading x(xPSSx)
No one knew that the ship broke in half at the time this movie came out
Good movie with, naturally, the limitations of any screenplay made off a novel. But made me wish the Titanic actually had sunk in one piece. Richard Jordan matched exactly my mental picture of Dirk Pitt.
Thank you, MVS.
Raise the Titanic was my first Clive Cussler book and hooked me for the next 40 years!!
Why don't people just realise this is a fictional movie not fact and enjoy it for what it is. Crikey if all movies had to follow fact exactly they'd be really boring.
This movie always been a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s silly but so much fun to watch. I read the novel by Clive Cussler before ever seeing the movie, read pretty much the entire Dirk Pitt series. It’s a fun series, dated now and some of the books have not aged well but so much fun to read
The later books, co-written, had lost their edge, unfortunately.
Agreed, I struggled to connect when a new pair of heros entered the picture.
I absolutely loved anything involving the Corporation with Jaun Cabrillo and his hired guns.
The intro music was also used in the Disney movie, The Black Hole when the ship Cygnus, orbiting a black hole was found.
I have always enjoyed the part where the model comes to the surface. The model was abandoned in the sea off Malta when the film was completed.
Who has it now?
One of my favourite films from childhood. Such a great cast. Alec Guinness' monologue alone elevates this to a level beyond the soulless CGI drivel mostly churned out for easy cash by today's studios. Thank goodness for some of the rare exceptions like Nolan and Tarantino who still try and stretch an audience.
I can't believe that a top actor like Alec Guinness would be so desperate to appear in this drivel. It is impossible to raise it and walk on it. Obviously the film makers never studied the Titanic. This should go into the categories for the worst films ever made. No wonder it flopped at the cinema big time
@@simonwarner-yu4tmBeing in a movie doesn’t mean he was desperate does it? Money in the bank, movie flop or not he got his pay.
@@simonwarner-yu4tm The book (1976) this was based on was based on what was known about the Titanics sinking. At the time, the wreck hadn't been located and it was thought it had sunk on one piece, and would still be in good condition because the bacteria down there wouldn't be able to attack it. (as extremophile bacteria weren't well studied back then)
This was still true when the film was made (1980). The wreck wasn't located until 1985 when we discovered both of these not to be true. We now know that it it is slowly being eaten away, and will be little more than a pile of rust flakes in another 80-100 years.
Also, its entertainment. Really.
after being at the being at the bottom of the sea for as long as it had been rusting away theres no way that it could support his weight he would have fallen through the floor
A few historical inaccuracies, but a good yarn all the same. Add to that an always-welcome cameo by Sir Alec Guinness and a memorial soundtrack, and it's an enjoyable watch.
although it is not conceivable and technically viable 40 years then and now, the sight of a Titanic rising out of the sea in spite of the improbable scale of the rising undertaken is a spectacular sight cinematically...
Anyone here (besides me) like this film?
+Brendan Matelan I do x
+Brendan Matelan - It's bloody dreadful. But because I loved it when I was a kid and didn't know any better, I'll always have a soft spot for it. The thing is, the casting is absolutely impeccable - but the script is so irredeemably bad that even they can't rescue it.
+Brendan Matelan It's so scientifically implausible that it's good.
Im a pretty much expert on TITANIC it makes me laugh some of these dumb comments.I thought everyone knew that this is a movie made before they found her.Do you not think that they would do there homework before they spent millions on the movie.If they knew it was broke in two then the film wouldnt have been made its common sense dumb shits lol
***** The official inquiry ruled that Titanic went down in one piece.
This was because 2nd Officer Lightholler did not witness the ship breaking in two and they took his word over the passengers.
It's not as bad a film as they make out IMO. I loved it as a kid... it captures the imagination and has a beautiful ending. Yes totally inaccurate factually as we'd later discover, but it still gives goosebumps when the ship emerges from the water. Oh and the score by the late great John Barry is superb too.
1:47:08 ....What a wonderful movie and so chilling to revisit the hole Titanic story especially with the recent past events...Thanx for the upload !!! ...🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺😁
Incredible music score by John Barry!