Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Acting
Stanwyck and Webb's bitter upper-class warfare.
Direction
Negulesco squeezes maximum dread from minimal effects.
Costume
1950s Hollywood's idea of 1912 first-class glamour.
Director
Jean Negulesco
Clifton Webb
Richard Ward Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck
Julia Sturges
Robert Wagner
Gifford "Giff" Rogers
Audrey Dalton
Annette Sturges
Thelma Ritter
Maude Young
Brian Aherne
Capt. Edward John Smith
Richard Basehart
George S. Headley
Allyn Joslyn
Earl Meeker
James Todd
Sandy Comstock
Frances Bergen
Madeleine Astor
William Johnstone
John Jacob Astor
Mae Marsh
Woman to Whom Norman Gave His Seat (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Lifeboat Survivor (uncredited)
Michael Rennie
End Narrator (Voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first Titanic film shot after the wreck's 1985 discovery, yet it ignored the real location — Fox built a 775-foot replica that sank in a studio tank.
The 1997 blockbuster borrowed heavily from this film's class-divided romance and steerage-party structure, but swapped the bitter married couple for young lovers.
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