Born Ernest Carlton Brimmer, Richard Dix was about half-way into his very prolific career as a leading man. I didn't really know anything about him before seeing this movie. Via Netflix streaming video.
This was the 1930s and scientists didn't know nearly as much about the geology of the Atlantic Ocean as we do today, so viewing it there are some seemingly obvious flaws in the plan.
The plan was to build a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean, tying together the USA and England. Dix plays the engineer who can accomplish this, and his difficulty getting financing. From a technical aspect there is no discussion of the various underwater chasms that would need to be attended to, only a very simplistic depiction of two crews, each starting on different sides of the ocean, planning to meet in the middle. Along the way they need to figure out a way to get around an underwater volcano which they had no prior knowledge of.
But in reality the actual tunnel is secondary to the drama. He has a wife and son who don't get enough attention because he is so consumed with the project. He has a best friend who stays behind to keep the wife company and there arises the possible issue of an illicit love affair, which in the 1930s would not have been depicted overtly.
By today's standards this is a mediocre movie at best, but it is still interesting as a slice of cinema from that era, seeing how they depict possible futuristic methods of video conferencing and phone calls from airplanes, the sorts of things we are very familiar with today.
This was the 1930s and scientists didn't know nearly as much about the geology of the Atlantic Ocean as we do today, so viewing it there are some seemingly obvious flaws in the plan.
The plan was to build a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean, tying together the USA and England. Dix plays the engineer who can accomplish this, and his difficulty getting financing. From a technical aspect there is no discussion of the various underwater chasms that would need to be attended to, only a very simplistic depiction of two crews, each starting on different sides of the ocean, planning to meet in the middle. Along the way they need to figure out a way to get around an underwater volcano which they had no prior knowledge of.
But in reality the actual tunnel is secondary to the drama. He has a wife and son who don't get enough attention because he is so consumed with the project. He has a best friend who stays behind to keep the wife company and there arises the possible issue of an illicit love affair, which in the 1930s would not have been depicted overtly.
By today's standards this is a mediocre movie at best, but it is still interesting as a slice of cinema from that era, seeing how they depict possible futuristic methods of video conferencing and phone calls from airplanes, the sorts of things we are very familiar with today.