In October 1976 Grade had the film rights for a reported $450,000. The film was released on VHS in 1986 by CBS/Fox Home Video. Raise the Titanic/Deep Quest Saved [3:31] 13. 54) Prayer (our lifeline to Him!) Days turn into weeks. This book ties in with Clive Cussler's 1st book, Raise the Titanic. Just before theTitanicfoundered, 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!" I honestly can't wait to head back to the library to get another (and hopefully the very first Isaac Bell book). On dry land Seagram has recalculated the position of where Titanic could now have landed on the seabed. A century apart, Dirk Pitt and Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. [11], At the Cannes Film Festival in May 1977, Lew Grade revealed the film as part of a slate of projects which included The Boys from Brazil, The Golden Gate (from a novel by Alistair MacLean directed by Jerry Jameson), and $1.97 about the early years of Charles Bronson. Anyway the money that would normally go to actors has been spent on our models. Cast artwork Drew Struzan. After a lengthy search in which aTitanicband member's cornet is first found, experts and theU.S. Navythen begin the dangerous job of raising the ship from the seabed, in which one of the submersibles,Starfish, experiences a cabin flood and implodes. Price Match Guarantee. With a sudden sharp crack, the tow cables snap up from the sea as the tug boats take the strain and begin to pull the Titanic from the salvage location for the journey to New York where huge crowds line the embankments to watch the unsinkable legend finally make port if somewhat 75 years too late. Released 21 September 1999 on Silva America (catalog no. 2023 Silva Screen Records Ltd. All Rights Reserved. The Russians even put their troops, time to time And now you're telling us, you've lost this man and you may've lost them to some Russians. Cheering fills the air as the Deep Quest pops up on the surface. Pitt and Seagram alone go the small graveyard and find that the byzanium is indeed buried there. Investigations prove that the only known source of it is in the Soviet Union, but it is known that around the turn of the century a miner exported some of it. FILE "14 - Russian Threat The Titanic Enters New York Harbor.flac" WAVE TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Russian Threat / The Titanic Enters New York Harbor" ISRC GBAJC9902290 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "15 - "Thank God For Southby" In The Graveyard End Titles.flac" WAVE TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE ""Thank God For Southby" / In The Graveyard / End Titles" Thank God for Southby Brewster wrote in his last message before he boarded the soon to be ill-fated, Following speaking with a surviving crew member of the, On dry land Seagram has recalculated the position of where, Explosives are placed around the hull of the, Pitt is the first to venture onboard the sodden decks of the wreck. Typical country church and graveyard in the county of Hampshire near the village of Southby. Heavy winds blow across the coastal exposed graveyard of Southby as Pitt and Seagram are taken to an eroded headstone among the hundreds of graves. Explosives are placed around the hull of the Titanic; the iceberg gash has been covered over and the salvage tanks have been filled with gas. Chased across Europe, then over the sea to land in Scotland, the remaining miners finally got the ore down into England and placed into the cargo hold of an ocean liner that was to sail from Southampton to New York. Like a giant metal sea monster, the Titanic emerges from the ocean depths in a chorus of buckling plates and popping bulkheads. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. John Barry. Armed with this new information, Pitt and the other sub crews resume the search where they hit the jackpot. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. In August of that year producer Robert Shaftel reportedly had the film rights,[4] but in the following month it was clarified that the film rights had not yet been offered. I hope to see you there! But like they had even said, it definitely stands on its own. [10], In January 1977 Kramer signed contracts to direct the film and produced by Marvin Starger. The final scene involved Alec Guinness at St. Ives in Cornwall[27] over two days. I love how it opened with Dirk Pitt before working its way to 1911 with Isaac Bell. A man is four days over due at the pickup point. "Thank God for Southby"/In the Graveyard/End Titles Grab it while you can. The wreck of the Titanic was not found until 1985 despite numerous attempts to discover it since 1912. Upon the body of Brewster a postcard is found. Clambering down into the dark hell below, American mining agent Sid Koplin is on a quest to track down the last traces of an extremely rare mineral named Byzanium. Get help and learn more about the design. [10], Production costs spiralled to US$15 million as work was undertaken to find a ship that could be converted to look like the sunken Titanic. Meanwhile, that round trip is no day in a dinghy. As lights, salvage tanks and other equipment is lowered to the sea floor, disaster strikes as the submersible Deep Quest accidentally gets pinned down into a skylight on Titanic. SUSPENSE | He blamed the failure of the film in part on the release of a TV movie on the topic, S.O.S. It develops that another American had loaded the mineral in question (byzanium) onto the Titanic. But it was too late, the man had . Elements of the novel which did survive into the film were the discovery of the cornet that leads the search party to the wreck, and the eventual discovery of the mineral not in the Titanic cargo hold, but in the Southby graveyard, although in the novel's story it is exhumed and the Sicilian Project is tested. Stream songs including "Prelude", "Main Title / The Mine Shaft" and more. But its worth more than $1 million per ounce and has unknown and possibly great potential. [5], Lew Grade said he read the novel by Clive Cussler and became interested, thinking there was potential for a series along the lines of the James Bond films. Javascript is required to use most features on this website.Click here to learn how to enable javascript in your browser, and refresh this page after you have enabled javascript. Also, this move was made a year 5 years before Ballard and his team discovered the wreck, so they weren't sure on how many pieces it was. Horses and buggies are being replaced with automobiles. It's an action filled movie about the chase and mission to find and actually raise the ship. Inside are the sealed seven wooden crates and the remains of Brewster slumped in the corner. Categories: Super intricate plot! The story concerns a plan to recover the RMS Titanic due to the fact that it was carrying cargo valuable to Cold War hegemony . [22], Admiral David Cooney, Chief of Information for the Navy, demanded the script be rewritten so as the Russians did not come off smarter than the Americans.[14]. The day before the shoot St Ives had its worst storm in one hundred years, destroying the church where the scene was to be shot so it had to be relocated.[14]. Gene Explores the Titanic/Deep Quest Trapped 11. The Russian vessel close by is a torpedo vessel that will, on his order, fire at the Titanic and send the wreck back to the bottom unless Pitt and Sandecker hand over the Byzanium. The conditions of the wreck were unknown, as it would be physically impossible to raise any part of the ship, as it lies now. Even though theyve already developed the technology designed to antagonise another country. Following the completion of filming, the scale model was left to rust for 30 years at the side of the horizon tank (at .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}355336.36N 14324.41E / 35.8934333N 14.5345583E / 35.8934333; 14.5345583). Unfortunately the only power source which can sustain this technology is a mineral that can only be found in Russia (the irony division helped in the design). Good read, fast pace and action with historical significance! Another submersible, theDeep Quest, while attempting to clear debris from one of the upper decks suddenly tears free and accidentally crashes through the skylight above the main staircase and becomes jammed. The 10 million-gallon tank could create the illusion a ship was at sea. At box office the film saw a return of 7 million. In America Dr. Gene Seagram, who has been working for a special security section of the government, has devised a laser defence system that would protect America from any missile attacks by generating an invisible screen, like a wall, that would simply knock out the missile before they could reach U.S airspace. I must admit the Isaac Bell series is probably my least favorite of all the Clive Cussler series, but I still read them all. Indeed, even after discovering the wreck which lies in two large parts, research has shown that the Titanic did not break above the surface. I didn't realize this was a "prequel/sequel" type of book until I read some of the reviews before I actually started reading the book. And yes, all of this connects to the Titanic in the title. Technology is just ramping up. One of the best Isaac Bell stories. The novel was published in 1976. It is set back in the early 1900s, but contains just as much non-stop action and adventure as Clive Cusslers modern day series. Eva Hart speaks about her memories of the Titanic . However, trouble looms on the horizon in the shape of a watching Russian vessel and the growing concerns of an incoming hurricane. /ch{} Oh for a boss like Henry Ford today!!! On a Russian ice-covered island, a lone figure digs down through the snow to unearth a long-lost entrance to a mine shaft. 3.75* I enjoy the Isaac Bell Series - it's set at the turn-of-the-20th century and things are exciting. Producer Lew Grade later remarked "it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic".[2][3]. GENERAL THRILLER & SUSPENSE | As they contemplate their probable failure Sandecker tells Pitt and Seagram that they actually were thinking of a way to weaponize the byzanium to create a super bomb, not just to power a defensive system which went against everything the scientist believed in. At times, the characters and the emotional core of the events are almost obscured by such quick maneuvering through the weighty plot. His dangerous quest to answer that riddle leads to a larger one centered on a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. The fun begins with the prologue and doesn't stop till the end. Memories of the Titanic 14. "Thank God for Southby." "Southby? A zombie apocalypse is one thing. The Sicilian Defence/Southby/'The Mountain Comes to Us' 5 'We're in Business' 6: To Cornwall/'All That's Left' 7: Deep Quest/Flood! [6][7] Kramer was making The Domino Principle for Grade. I am a huge Dirk Pitt fan and so when I heard that the latest Isaac Bell thriller features Dirk I could not resist. Like Hollywood at the end of the 20th century, artists at the beginning took some liberties with the facts. . Longer than two rugby fields. SUSPENSE | Ten years after her teenage daughter went missing, a mother begins a new relationship only to discover she can't truly move on until she answers lingering questions about the past. First time reading Clive Cussler and it did not disappoint. Questions are raised about byzanium but are not answered. Coming aboard Titanic, Captain Prevlov issues a stark warning that he knows about the Byzanium stolen in 1912 from Russian land. As ocean going tugs boats arrive to take, With a sudden sharp crack, the tow cables snap up from the sea as the tug boats take the strain and begin to pull the, Images ITC 1980 and come from the Jonathan Smith Collection. 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