The Tunnel

The Tunnel (1935)

GB's Eight Star Special

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

Date of release
1935-10-27
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
Maurice Elvey

Casting

Interesting facts

The Tunnel is a 1935 British science fiction film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson, C. Aubrey Smith and Basil Sydney. It is based on the 1913 novel The Tunnel by Bernhard Kellermann, about the building of a transatlantic tunnel between New York and London. The script was written by Curt Siodmak, L. du Garde Peach and Clemence Dane. The film, produced at a time when the threat of war loomed in Europe, emphasized international cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Production

Bernhard Kellermann's 1913 novel The Tunnel previously had been filmed three times: once as the German silent Der Tunnel (1915), and then as two sound films Der Tunnel (German) and Le Tunnel (French), both released in 1933 and directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The Tunnel used footage extensively from the 1933 German version.

A first draft of the screenplay written by Sidney Gilliat was discarded. Clemence Dane, who provided additional dialogue, was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton, an English novelist and playwright who later won an Academy Award for Best Story for Perfect Strangers (1945).

The New York City opening of The Tunnel took place on 27 October 1935.

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