 The Hollywood producer David O. Selznick tried to persuade Alfred Hitchcock to make a "Titanic" film for him in 1938, based on a novel of the same name by Wilson Mizner and Carl Harbaugh.The storyline involves a gangster who renounces his life of crime when he falls in love with a woman aboard "Titanic".Selznick envisaged buying the redundant liner "Leviathan" to use as a set.