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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: The Tunnel
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 19:26:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 19:26:51 1985
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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