An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction. French-language version of the 1933 German DER TUNNEL, q.v.
Acting
Gabin's granite resolve — he makes engineering sexy and doomed.
Production
Miniature tunnel sets that scream 'we spent the budget here.'
Direction
Bernhardt squeezing pre-noir dread from every rivet.
Director
Curtis Bernhardt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as Hitler's rise, the tunnel's impossible unity feels like a dying dream of European cooperation.
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