The Tunnel (1935)

★★★★★ · There are other Things Besides Money, "He said." "We Don't Deal in Them." said the other Fellow. · AnnSmithy · 2011-01-09

I loved to view this movie, even though I couldn't always follow the progress of the tunnel, I was fasinated with the style and taste of the English scenery, from the theatre in the room to the rose garden and tea for two blondes. That classic car I've only seen in prints never a moving picture. This movie is eye candy and dreamy. Forget the reality of building a tunnel and enjoy it for the facts. Early electric scooters for the lame, and flat screens that protract. Every scene is perfectly lovely. All caucasion the foreigners haven't taken over the english speaking people yet.

★★★★★ · a super movie · revdaddy · 2009-10-29

I enjoyed this greatly. I have to strongly disagree with the other review. I found it a tribute to the American and British spirit. The bad guys in this were industrialists who schemed to make a killing on the stock--one actually killing the another. The idea was to build the tunnel to bring about more peace. I work for that and pray for it. The televisors, aeroplanes, rail cars and electric cars were so futuristic that even today they seem like something we couls see in the future. What a contrast to the fashions of the late 30s. The ending was a bit of a let-down.

★★★★★ · Tunnel of love, maybe not · cloudeagle · 2013-02-27

The tunnel effects were brilliant, Only seen comparable stuff on Discovery Channel re tunnels through mountains to bring water for eg to LA. The effects alone get 4 stars, add to that pretty good acting, and I am well gob smacked. One to watch definitely, even manages a bit of on the edge of the seat stuff. .

★★★★★ · love these old films... · Peleke · 2013-04-12

Very enjoyable story, thanks.

★★★★ · Definitely into the spirit of the times · earther · 2010-11-23

This is a serious soaper in classic 1930s style, but it's also a neat science fiction story set in the luxe, art deco future envisioned in the 1930s. The tunnel itself is part of a vision of peace and progress, but it is up against the evils of business speculators and arms dealers and the sacrifices that the project would entail. You can almost watch it as an allegory about what later would happen in World War II. Of course, no one knew then. The future was a world where one's maid or butler would answer the video phone for you and the radium drill and a new type of style might make anything…

★★★ · Oh Darling.. (my best Brit accent) · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-01-08

What imbeciles these dashing men must have been to think they could survive drilling right through an active volcano and live to ...well...do anything much less shake hands! This wasn't Dix's best performance, but was probably his most ambitious. They had a good idea for something, maybe peace, but for sanity it didn't quite cut it. They might as well just build a giant pontoon bridge over the Atlantic. At least they wouldn't have been burnt to crispy critters trying even though they would have probably drowned before getting even half way. Still..with the gazillion flaws I liked it, but why…