NEW TREND IN PLOTS
LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE It looks as if film producers, having exploited the past in " Catherine the Great," " Queen Christina," and half-a-dozen other productions, are now about to exploit the future. Alexander Korda is to make a picture based on Mr. H. G. Wells' " Shape of Things to Come," and now Gaumont-British announce " The Tunnel." " The Tunnel" of the picture is a Trans-atlantic one, through which trains carry passengers from France to America in twenty-four hours. Bernard ,Kellerman, the author, imagines whole towns being built at the terminal points, hundreds of thousands of men at work, booms in the world's iron, coal and steel industries, and then a mishap which inflames public opinion against the man responsible for the tunnel. He is thrown into gaol, but lives to see his scheme successful. Maurice Elvey will direct. The cast will include 3000 extras.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21792, 5 May 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)
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146NEW TREND IN PLOTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21792, 5 May 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)
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