 To add to the problems, Howard Hughes and a French company threatened lawsuits as they had their own "Titanic" scripts, and British censors let it be known that they disapproved of a film that might be seen as critical of the British shipping industry.The project was eventually abandoned as the Second World War loomed and Hitchcock instead made Rebecca for Selznick in 1940, winning an Oscar for Best Picture.A similar plotline of a thief renouncing his life of crime after falling in love with a steerage woman aboard the ship was later used in the 1996 television miniseries "Titanic".