Based on the Clive Cussler novel of the same name (why would you change it?!), Richard Jordan plays the lead role of Dirk Pitt, an all round hero/explorer type fella, charged with the mission to raise the Titanic following the realization that the hold of the sunken wreck could very well contain a mineral (very rare) integral to a new defense shield that the US military has developed. In time honoured 1980's espionage/cold war ways, the soviets are after the substance and given that it originated in jointly held Arctic regions, they feel they have as much right to salvage as the Yanks.
Filmed on a massive budget- $36,000,000, the feature raised (get it) barely $14,000,000 at the box office world wide...little of that from the U.S.S.R I imagine.
Fun Fact: the film received numerous awards, sadly, they were Razzies. Worst Picture, Screenplay and Supporting Actor all acknowledged.
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