Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck. Its plot follows an estranged couple and other fictional passengers on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship of the same name, which took place in April 1912.

Plot

Richard Sturges, a wealthy expatriate in Europe, buys a third-class ticket for the maiden voyage of the Titanic from a Basque emigrant. Once aboard, he seeks his runaway wife Julia and discovers that she is trying to take their two unsuspecting children, 18-year-old Annette and 10-year-old Norman, to her hometown of Mackinac Island, Michigan, to rear them as ordinary Americans rather than as privileged elitists in Europe. The passengers also include the wealthy Maude Young (based on real-life Titanic survivor Margaret Brown), social-climbing Earl Meeker, 20-year-old Purdue University tennis player Giff Rogers and George Healey, a Catholic priest who has been defrocked for alcoholism.