So...about "The Tunnel"...it's a real period piece...in that we have offered two scenes where the British Prime Minister and the American President address their legislatures (Parliament and Congress, doncha know). This is done, in the movie, on TV, which is aired, live, in the respective chambers. In 1936. Or...'35...I forget at the mo. Anyhow.....the kicker about these 2 scenes: The PM is played by George Arliss, a Brit actor known for playing Benjamin Disraeli, another well known Brit PM. Cool, right? The American president is played by Walter Houston, father of John (who directed his dad in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" along with Bogart and Tim Holt), and (Walter) is also the grandfather of Angelica and Danny. Very cool. Walter is a, in this movie, a patrician pol along the lines of FDR and Arliss is very like Chamberlain. Tres cool.
The ambience of the flic is both futuristic and contemporary (to it's time)...a mirror of what they thought they looked like at that moment, if you will.
Man-oh-man....I know there was a shit load of things I wanted to share about the movie and the books as well..but, now that I'm here typing, it is all gone. I'm well into a few beers, so that mightn't help.
To seque a bit: I just walked away from watching the first "Rambo" movie. It was based on a book called "First Blood", which, no surprise to you, I had read prior to the movie's creation. A very good story told well, in both print and film...not often done. But maybe it's one of those "...it was fine for it's time" books. I don't know if it'd have the same kick as it did in the '70s ...and then there is the whole vet thing too that might not have the same tug for youse as it did for me. (Intentional insertion of New Yawkese there).
Ok...now I'm back on track...the thing about "The Tunnel" ...the star was a guy named Richard Dix, an American. For the entire movie, I was sure he'd played Tarzan at some time...he had the build...the physicality...I was positive. (I may be wrong but I'm rarely unsure). Anyhow...that got me, in a strange way, back to the Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff that I had just finished. It seemed pre-ordained, in a way. I know that God has better things to do than listen to my minor snivels, so it was a nice surprise to feel like someone had done a macreme of coincidence to get me from one place to another. Anyone not follow that? It might be obscure but it works for me.
an aside: if that was obscure for you, please read "The Celestine Prophecy". All will be made clear. (it could be prophecies...I forget).
And, of course, now I've lost my train again. Damn.
I'm down on myself...but I'm
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