Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!msb From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Tunnel Message-ID: <400@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 19:26:51 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.400 Posted: Wed Feb 13 19:26:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 20:22:47 EST References: <202@ttidcc.UUCP> <2304@nsc.UUCP> <345@lsuc.UUCP> <3680@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 23 Summary: No connection between B. Kellermann and H. Harrison books Daniel P Faigin (ucla-cs!faigin) quotes me: > >Last weekend I saw the 1935 movie The Tunnel, also titled The Transatlantic > >Tunnel. ... And asks: > Does anyone know if this movie is related in any way, shape, or > form to the Harry Harrison book, > "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" Yes, I do. No, it isn't. Harrison's book (which also has an alternate title, "Tunnel Through the Deeps" ("Deep"?)) was written in about 1965 or 1970, and is set about an alternate history where the US did not leave the British Empire. On the other hand, the movie in question is based on a 1913 book in German by B. Kellermann and is set in the ordinary future. (In the movie, the Channel Tunnel had been opened in 1940, and the scene was sometime later.) For those who missed the original article: the movie is interesting mainly as a curiosity; all prints were thought lost, so it's rare. Mark Brader