Atlantic Adventure (1935)

Director:

Albert S. Rogell

Writers:

John T. Neville (screenplay), Nat Dorfman (screenplay),

Stars:

Nancy Carroll, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Langdon

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Nancy Carroll	...	Helen Murdock
Lloyd Nolan	...	Dan Miller
Harry Langdon	...	Snapper McGillicuddy
Arthur Hohl	...	Frank Julian
Robert Middlemass	...	Harry Van Dieman
John Wray	...	Mitts Coster
E.E. Clive	...	McIntosh
Dwight Frye	...	Spike Jonas

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

lifeboat | ship captain | fired from the job | newspaper editor | diamond | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Mystery

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 August 1935 (USA)

Also Known As:

Sure Fire

Filming Locations:

RKO-Pathé Studios - 9336 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

68 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Edwin Maxwell as "Du Pont" and Louis Natheaux are in studio records/casting call lists for this movie, but they did not appear or were not identifiable.

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Soundtracks

"Jingle Bells"
(1857) (uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont
Sung a cappella by Eddie Kane

User Reviews

Wiseacre reporter, sidekick and girlfriend stowaway on ocean liner to catch a murderer

The very interesting cast makes this otherwise fairly ordinary ace-reporter-cum-detective story worth watching. Lloyd Nolan is serviceable in the role of reporter Dan Miller, but I found myself thinking how Clark Gable or Lee Tracy would have handled it. Nancy Carroll is at the beginning of the end of her career in this picture, but was still bright and lovely as Helen Murdock, Miller's love interest. Silent comedy giant Harry Langdon plays the dim, amiable and always hungry photographer/sidekick Snapper McGillicuddy. Dwight Frye, best remembered for his role as the bug-eating Renfield in Dracula (1931) is along for the ride as one of the crooks. E.E. Clive, known for his many turns as Bulldog Drummond's butler Tenny Tennison, brightens up the film as one of the ship's officers who doesn't quite grasp the American sense of humor. The plot is about what you would expect from a newspaper mystery/comedy of the period. Miller, Murdock and Snapper track the D.A.'s murderer on board the SS Gigantic and somehow forget to get off before she sails. In addition to the murderer, rival gangs of jewel thieves are aboard, and general comic mayhem ensues. It's not Gone With the Wind, it's not even The Front Page, but it is a pleasant way to spend 68 minutes, especially if you like the actors in the cast.