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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Transatlantic Tunnel' smacks of the pulpy pages of "Amazing Stories Magazine." A British engineer digs a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean some time in the near future. He loses his son and estranges his wife in the process, but the tunnel must go through. Then the movie gods smile, and the great achiever is finally reunited with his wife to the strains of "God Save the King" and the "Star Spangled Banner...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

...picture is a mealy hash of heroic emotions; sanctimonious sentiments on peace; monstrous international capitalists; baleful tunnel sickness; and huge machines, sinister in their unfeeling strength. It takes an extremely elastic suspension of disbelief to let this...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

...Radio City, "Peter Ibbetson". There's the Auto Show at Grand Central Palace; there's the Horse Show at the Garden; then again "Three Men on a Horse" will be found romping at the Playhouse. But there's always the dawn. And there's the tunnel and there's the highway and there's the game. And all over again. Times Square . . . one holiday . . . one journey . . . one high Tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

...bath) in Beverly Hills. Afflicted by chronic insomnia and aware that she will not be able to sleep until dawn, she employs every decorous reason she can invent to detain guests. In Rendezvous, she had three duplicates of all dresses and shoes to avoid delays for wardrobe replacements. Transatlantic Tunnel (Gaumont-British) exhibits the British cinema industry, long noted for its delvings into history, hopefully examining the future. Suggested by the speech in which Stanley Baldwin declared that an alliance between the U. S. and Britain would be a sanction no power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...addition to the full-time performers in the cast, Transatlantic Tunnel is distinguished by the presence of two famed actors who introduce their specialties as bit parts-George Arliss as the British Prime Minister and Walter Huston as the U. S. President, circa 1985 A.D. The film is an exciting if misleading cinematic horoscope to which futuristic fashion notes were contributed by Schiaparelli. Good shot: gas-masked workmen chatting via television telephones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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