"Transatlantic" didn't feature any names I'm familiar with besides Myrna Loy and Jean Hersholt. It starred Edmund Lowe as Monty Greer, someone of nebulous dealings. He, as well as a host of other characters, was on a cruise ship named "S. S. Transatlantic." The people of interest were Henry Graham (John Halliday), Kay Graham (Myrna Loy), Sigrid Carline (Greta Nissen), Judy Kramer (Lois Moran), Jed Kramer (Jean Hersholt), and Handsome (Earle Foxe).
Henry Graham (John Halliday)was a wealthy banker whose bank failed, yet he seemed eerily unfazed by it. He was having a grand old time on the Transatlantic messing around with Sigrid Carline (Greta Nissen) right under his wife Kay's nose. Henry was a loathsome person. He was cheating on his wife and cheating his customers. While they were losing everything with his bank's failure he'd withdrawn all of his money and assets from the bank. Jed (Jean Hersholt), one of his customers, was despondent. He went to Henry in hopes he may do something or offer up some advice. Instead Henry shooed him away as though he were a leper.
While Henry was publicly embarrassing Kay (Myrna Loy) by being seen with Sigrid, Kay was trying to remain a dutiful wife. In fact, she readily accepted Henry back once he was done with playing with Sigrid. It turns out that even though Henry was a foul cheat, he didn't want his mistress Sigrid to be fooling around with anyone else. When he saw Sigrid and Monty (Edmund Lowe) in the room together he'd had enough of her and went back to his wife who was ever the soldier.
Monty was mixed up with everyone. He found himself entertaining Judy Kramer (Lois Moran), the young daughter of Jed Kramer. He was dodging Handsome (Earle Foxe), a thief scheming on Henry Graham's loot. He evidently once had a relationship with Sigrid who now had her eyes on Henry Kramer and his money, which put him smack-dab in the middle of the Grahams marital affairs.
"Transatlantic" was pretty good. It looked like it could've been a model for movies like "Grand Hotel" (1932) and "Manhattan Tower" (1932), both movies that involved many characters in one enclosed location.
