Transatlantic

Titre original : The Tunnel

1935
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1h 34min

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Deux ingénieurs, Richard MacAllan et Frederick Robinson, obtiennent le financement de leur projet insensé : percer un tunnel souterrain entre l'Angleterre et les États-Unis.Deux ingénieurs, Richard MacAllan et Frederick Robinson, obtiennent le financement de leur projet insensé : percer un tunnel souterrain entre l'Angleterre et les États-Unis.Deux ingénieurs, Richard MacAllan et Frederick Robinson, obtiennent le financement de leur projet insensé : percer un tunnel souterrain entre l'Angleterre et les États-Unis.

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Rôles principaux23

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Richard Dix

Richard McAllan

Leslie Banks

Frederick 'Robbie' Robbins

Madge Evans

Ruth McAllan

Helen Vinson

Varlia Lloyd

C. Aubrey Smith

Lloyd

Basil Sydney

Mostyn

Henry Oscar

Grellier

Hilda Trevelyan

Mary

Cyril Raymond

Harriman

Jimmy Hanley

Geoffrey McAllan

George Arliss

Prime Minister of Great Britain
(as Mr. George Arliss)

Walter Huston

President of the United States
(as Mr. Walter Huston)

James Carew

Jim Barton
(non crédité)

Pat Fitzpatrick

Geoffrey - As a young child
(non crédité)

Jacqueline Giovanni

Young Girl
(non crédité)

Helen Haye

Oil Magnate
(non crédité)

Bryan Herbert

American Reporter
(non crédité)

Dennis Hoey

Worker
(non crédité)

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Anecdotes
One of the plot elements that crops up in the movie is a volcanic area that the tunnelers run into about halfway across the Atlantic. This makes sense, as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a very active area. The neat part in relation to the movie is that while the existence of a "Ridge" on the seafloor was known at the time, it was not known that it was so active. It wasn't until the Heezen/Ewing/Tharp mapping of the ocean floor in the 1950s that people discovered that Seismic activity and "Seafloor Spreading" due to magma seepage were going on. That was about 20 years after the makers of the film surmised Magma pockets near the Mid-Atlantic.

Gaffes
Although the story takes place over a period of about twenty years, none of the principal players shows any sign of aging, despite all the ordeals encountered.

Citations
Richard 'Mack' McAllan: There are bigger things than money.
Airways Magnate: We don't deal in 'em.

Crédits fous
At the end of the opening credits, a card comes up with "Gaumont-British Picture Corpn. Ltd. were fortunate in securing the services of Mr. George Arliss and Mr. Walter Huston for the parts of Prime Minister of Great Britain and President of the United States."

Connexions
Edited from Der Tunnel (1933)

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8/10

Story is about a construction project to build a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean from England to America

I was 11 years old in 1935, and an avid movie goer. I was absolutely fascinated by the idea of digging a tunnel from England to America, no more unbelievable at that time, than building a tunnel under the Channel from England to France which was actually begun by Napoleon in 1802 and completed in the 1990's. It is now over 70 years since I saw the film and cannot remember much of the detail except that the lead actor was Richard Dix who if my memory serves me correctly was the chief engineer. I don't know why it is referred as science fiction as many movies over the years have to do with construction projects, and I saw it as a real happening. Perhaps towards the end of this century it may be accomplished.