The luxury cruise line’s website lavishes the vessel with praise: “sumptuous,” “legendary,” “astonishing.” YouTube is full of ...

The ocean liner rose as the 30-foot-high swell passed beneath the hull. After a slight pause, it surged forward, careening to the bottom of the wave trough with a bang and a deep shudder. It was the ...

As a cruise skeptic, Cunard changed my mind. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why anyone would take an ocean liner. Look what happened in the movies. Shelley Winters walks gaily up a gangway ...

Ill-fated love, terrorists, con men—like the grand hotels that were also once staples of cinema and stage, ocean liners are reliable backdrops for every cliché known to the machinery of melodrama.