Transatlantic Poster

Transatlantic (1931)

NR 08/19/1931 Comedy, Drama, Thriller 1h 18m
55%
User
Score
6.4/10

A storm of Love! Hate! Murder! Retribution!

Overview

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.

Guy Bolton

Screenplay

Lynn Starling

Screenplay

William K. Howard

Director

Top Billed Cast

Edmund Lowe

Edmund Lowe

Monty Greer

Lois Moran

Lois Moran

Judy Kramer

John Halliday

John Halliday

Henry D. Graham

Greta Nissen

Greta Nissen

Sigrid Carline

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

Kay Graham

Jean Hersholt

Jean Hersholt

Rudolph aka Jed Kramer

Earle Foxe

Earle Foxe

Handsome

Billy Bevan

Billy Bevan

Hodgkins

Eddie Borden

Eddie Borden

Interloper

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on February 18, 2024

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 fin...

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