{"product_id":"raise-the-titanic-the-making-of-the-movie-vol-1","title":"Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Vol. 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eby Jonathan Smith\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e506 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8.5 x 11 in.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 9781629338712\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“That’s right sir. We can’t get divers down to the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e. Which leaves us with only one choice. We don’t go to the mountain. The mountain comes to us.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDirk Pitt (Richard Jordan)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt was claimed to be the “Big One” for the 1980s; a film adventure to rival the James Bond franchise and the movie that would make Great Britain’s entertainment mogul Lord Lew Grade a threat to the Hollywood film studios. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e historian Jonathan Smith chronicles the ups and downs of the production of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaise the Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e; the $35m big-screen adaptation of Clive Cussler’s 1976 bestselling novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaise the Titanic: The Making of the Movie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e delves deep into the interesting and often puzzling production woes that went on to haunt Grade and his acclaimed film and television companies of ITC and Marble Arch Productions. 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