The Tunnel

1935
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1h 34min

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Un team di scienziati e ingegneri internazionali tenta di costruire un tunnel sotto l'oceano.Un team di scienziati e ingegneri internazionali tenta di costruire un tunnel sotto l'oceano.Un team di scienziati e ingegneri internazionali tenta di costruire un tunnel sotto l'oceano.

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Interpreti principali23

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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 citato nei titoli originali)

Pat Fitzpatrick

Geoffrey - As a young child
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Jacqueline Giovanni

Young Girl
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Helen Haye

Oil Magnate
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Bryan Herbert

American Reporter
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Dennis Hoey

Worker
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Quiz
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.

Blooper
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.

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

Curiosità sui crediti
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."

Connessioni
Edited from Il tunnel (1933)

Recensioni degli utenti25

Recensione in evidenza

6/10

Interesting, but disappointing

Finally saw this movie after many years of eager anticipation only to find myself bored. I have to agree with Maltin's summary of the two-dimensional characterization of the players in this movie. The characters in this movie do nothing more than bicker and argue.

The movie was released in Britain in 1935. A darkening time for Europe was on the horizon with Adolph Hitler's rise to power in Germany. The characters in the movie hint at using the tunnel for uniting the "English" speaking people of the world; not to mention the transportation of armaments to Britain should war break out! Perhaps this movie was supposed to quell the fears of the British by offering an avenue of escapism in the promise of new and revolutionary technology (ie. the Radium Drill!) to avert war.

Never the less the movie does utilize futuristic sets and models that were ahead of their time and still hold their own today. Transportation historians will find this movie interesting. 6.5 out 10.