Celebrate engineering feats that conquered oceans with a look at historic liners—from the luxurious decks to the mechanisms that kept them afloat.
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He has the gem then he looses it and gets it back through various ploys around Europe
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.
Un muerto viviente está enamorado de la juvenil reencarnación de su milenaria amada.
Fu-Manchú está desarrollando una peligrosísima máquina capaz de helar las aguas. Con la ayuda del profesor Heracles, amenaza al mundo con su nuevo juguete por lo que Nayland Smith y su fiel amigo, el doctor Petrie, deberán volver a Londres para volver a seguirle la pista. El profesor Heracles está gravemente enfermo y necesita un trasplante de corazón. Mientras Naylan Smith y Petrie viajan hasta Estambul, Fu-Manchú se ha hecho con el mando de un castillo donde dominar el Bósforo. Pero huirá dejado un rastro de sangre y odio, cosa que permitir a Smith encontrar a un aliado en la figura de un conocido traficante de opio. Entre los dos deberán frenar los planes de un Fu-Manchú enloquecido y obsesionado por someter al mundo entero.
Una rica heredera viaja a Europa en un transatlántico, perseguida por un obrero al que toman por un importante ingeniero de minas. Durante la travesía, se encargará de dos maleantes que intentan deshacerse de ella.
Reporter Steve Haines, on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Durante una travesía oceánica, el trasatlántico S.S. Poseidón se hunde. Además de al naufragio, las olas y la lucha por la supervivencia, los pasajeros tendrán que enfrentarse a una banda que pretende apoderarse del valioso cargamento del barco.
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Historia de unos modernos piratas que intentan secuestrar y robar el famoso trasatlántico Queen Mary.
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.
Una famosa autora junta a sus amigos para divertirse y cerrar viejas heridas en un crucero, con su sobrino allí para hablar con las chicas y enamorarse de una joven agente literaria.
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Arthur (Tucci) y Maurice (Platt) llevan una vida insignificante y mezquina, pero actúan siempre que pueden. Tras una pelea de borrachos con el pretencioso y fatal Sir Jeremy Burton (Alfred Molina), un actor shakespeariano, se ven forzados a ocultarse como polizones en un barco que va a emprender un crucero. Desafortunadamente para ellos, Burtom resulta ser uno de los pasajeros.
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Un prestigioso financiero, que mantiene un romance con una joven muy popular dentro de la alta sociedad, lo dejará todo para enamorarla.