Name: Atlantic (AKA *Titanic*) Director: Ewald André Dupont Studio: British International Pictures Starring: Franklin Dyall, Madeleine Carroll, John Stuart, Ellaline Terriss, Ursula Jeans Release Date: October 16, 1929 (UK) Runtime: 94 minutes (approx.) Format: Early Sound Film (also released in Silent and Part-Talkie versions) Country: United Kingdom Language: English (also produced in German and French versions) Genres: | Drama | Disaster | Historical | Romance | --- Summary: *Atlantic* dramatizes the tragic sinking of an ocean liner on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, a story clearly inspired by the real-life disaster of the RMS *Titanic*. The film follows passengers and crew as they confront impending doom after the ship collides with an iceberg. Themes of love, sacrifice, fear, and courage are explored as men, women, and children face the struggle for survival in the icy waters. --- Background: Released in 1929, *Atlantic* was one of the first British sound films and a landmark in early disaster cinema. Though the ship in the film is never explicitly called the *Titanic*, audiences and critics immediately recognized the parallel. The film was shot in multiple language versions (English, French, and German) to reach wider audiences in the early sound era. Its release capitalized on the novelty of synchronized dialogue and music, while also retelling a story still vivid in public memory just 17 years after the disaster. --- Trivia: * One of the earliest films to depict the *Titanic* tragedy, though the name “Titanic” is never used due to legal concerns. * Produced in three versions: silent, part-talkie, and full talkie, to accommodate theaters transitioning from silent to sound. * Madeleine Carroll, who later became a major star in Alfred Hitchcock’s *The 39 Steps* (1935), had one of her early leading roles here. * The film’s German-language version (*Atlantik*) is considered lost, while the English version survives in archives. --- Hashtags: \#Atlantic1929 #TitanicFilm #EAWDupont #EarlySoundCinema #DisasterFilm #BritishCinema #MadeleineCarroll #ClassicFilm #FilmHistory