Indeed, the film was originally made as Titanic but after lawsuits it was renamed Atlantic. Atlantic was instead partly filmed on board a P&O ship, the Mooltan. However, this is untrue, as the White Star Line would never have permitted their current flagship to be used as a cinematic stand-in for the worst disaster in the company's history. Clarke-Smith as Freddie Tate-HughesĪn urban legend claimed for many years that the movie was filmed aboard the White Star Line ship RMS Majestic. The final scenes depict a group of passengers saying the Lord's Prayer in a flooding lounge. Rool refuses to leave her husband and after the boats are gone all the passengers gather on the deck and sing ' Nearer, My God, to Thee' as the Atlantic sinks into the ocean. A shortage of lifeboats causes the crew to only allow women and children in (though the captain allows a few men to take to the last remaining boats as the disaster reaches its zenith) and many couples are separated. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. Atlantic is a drama film based on the RMS Titanic and set aboard a fictional ship, called the Atlantic.

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