Tunnel, The

Date: 1935
Director: Maurice Elvey
Production Company: Gaumont British Picture Corporation

Stars: Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, C. Aubrey Smith, Basil Sydney
Location(s): London

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

A team of international scientists and engineers attempts to build a tunnel under the ocean.

Additional Information:

Rather blurry screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

Also known as ‘Transatlantic Tunnel’ (US Title)

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The British Parliament discuss the Transatlantic Tunnel being built by a group of industrialists led by Richard McAllan. The Houses of Parliament seen from the junction of Lambeth Bridge and Lambeth Palace Road SE1 with Lambeth Pier in the foreground. The location features in 'George and Mildred', 'Mr. Denning drives North', 'How to Get Ahead in Advertising', 'School for Scoundrels', 'Unearthly Stranger', 'A Dandy in Aspic', 'The Naked Truth', 'Midnight Lace', 'Seventy Deadly Pills', 'Bullseye!' and 'The Vault of Horror' amongst other productions.

A not so blurred image from Peter.

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After losing her sight whilst working in the tunnel, Ruth McAllan (Madge Evans) is led through the gardens of her country cottage.

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Geoffrey McAllan (Jimmy Hanley) takes Frederick Robbins (Leslie Banks ) into the garden of the cottage.

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Despite numerous setbacks and deaths, the tunnel is finally opened. Much of the model work in this film is borrowed from the 1933 German version of the story ‘Der Tunnel’.