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Transatlantic

- A storm of Love! Hate! Murder! Retribution!

As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.

Release Date : 1931-08-19

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Fox Film Corporation

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Monty Greer

Original Name : Edmund Lowe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Judy Kramer

Original Name : Lois Moran

Gender : Female

Character Name : Henry D. Graham

Original Name : John Halliday

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sigrid Carline

Original Name : Greta Nissen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Kay Graham

Original Name : Myrna Loy

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rudolph aka Jed Kramer

Original Name : Jean Hersholt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Handsome

Original Name : Earle Foxe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hodgkins

Original Name : Billy Bevan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Interloper

Original Name : Eddie Borden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Buyer

Original Name : Jesse De Vorska

Gender : Male

Character Name : 1st Officer

Original Name : Crauford Kent

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain

Original Name : Claude King

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sigrid's Beau

Original Name : James Kirkwood

Gender : Male

Character Name : Waiter

Original Name : Jack Low

Gender : Male

Character Name : Socker

Original Name : Bob Montgomery

Gender : Male

Character Name : Peters

Original Name : Goodee Montgomery

Gender : Female

Character Name : Stateroom Guest

Original Name : Edmund Mortimer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Henchman

Original Name : Louis Natheaux

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bride

Original Name : Rosalie Roy

Gender : Female

Character Name : Chalky

Original Name : Henry Sedley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Passenger

Original Name : Larry Steers

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-02-18

Though this does go a bit off course from time time, a boat - like a train - does provide for quite a good stage for an engaging mystery peppered with loads of melodrama. "Greer" (Edmund Lowe) is the suave and debonaire gent who hopes to make an easy living on the cards and on the roulette wheels abroad this liner. He quickly becomes aware of a cunning wheeze by a gang of crooks to relieve wealthy tycoon "Graham" (John Halliday) of some of his wealth but declines to get involved. "Halliday" is not so happily married to "Kay" (Myrna Loy) and so keeps mistress "Sigrid" (Greta Nissen) in the style to which she wishes to remain accustomed. That brings us full circle because she and "Greer" have some history together. Things become distinctly choppier on board when news reaches all that the financier's bank has gone bust and that has devastating effects on poor old "Kramer" (Jean Hersholt) who is travelling with his daughter "Judy" (Lois Moran) and who is now completely broke. What now ensues is quite an entertaining marriage of the criminal, the comedic - especially the steward (Billy Bevan) with his shallow obsequiousness - and the lightly romantic. As the threads tie together these characters have to reconcile the bankruptcy and the infidelities - all before the ship docks and they can all go their merry ways. It's really more of an ensemble effort with a competent Lowe at the top of the bill holding together the conflicting themes and whilst I could maybe have done with a little more of Loy, it still looks good and flows well enough - if predictably - for eighty minutes before quite a lively denouement deep in the gunwales. I suppose the "code" would have put paid to it had it been made three years later - too many sinful and naughty shenanigans.