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Titanic is 1953 dramatic movie directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is not to be confused with the movie with the same title made in 1997. Its plot, like in the 1997 movie, is centered around the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which took place in April 1912.

Tagline: TITANIC in Emotion...in Spectacle...in Climax...in Cast!

Plot summary

Richard Ward and Julia Sturges, a divorcing couple are traveling in First Class on the R.M.S. Titanic. Determined to remove her family from Richards' "high society" world, Julia secretly takes their two children: seventeen-year-old Annette and ten-year-old Norman on the Titanic and plans to raise them in her hometown of Mecannack, Michigan. However, after he learns of her plans, Richard buys a steerage ticket aboard the vessel in hopes of reconciling with his family.

Also aboard is a twenty-year-old cricket player Gifford Rogers, who falls for Annette, and suspended priest George S. Headley who has become an alcoholic.

Reception

The film was a hit and it touched and terrified moviegoers around the world. It also helped spawn new interest in the Titanic sinking which increased phenomenally with the 1955 release of Walter Lord's bestselling nonfiction account of the disaster, A Night to Remember
.

Real Titanic passengers and crew who were portrayed in the film, or referenced in the script, included John Jacob Astor IV, Madeleine Astor, Isidor Straus, Capt. Edward J. Smith, Second Officer Charles Lightoller, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon.

Main cast

Clifton Webb
- Richard Ward Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck
- Julia Sturges
Robert Wagner
- Gifford Rogers
Audrey Dalton
- Annette Sturges
Thelma Ritter
- Maude Young
Brian Aherne
- Captain Edward J. Smith
Richard Basehart
- George S. Headley
Allyn Joslyn
- Earl Meeker

Other Titanic movies

Titanic (1915)
Titanic
(1943)
A Night to Remember
(1958)
Titanic
(1996)
Titanic
(1997)

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