Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 4, 2021

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Transatlantic Merry-Go-Roun   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on April 26, 2013

Transatlantic Tunnel (AKA “The Tunnel”) Directed by Maurice Elvey 1935/UK Gaumont British Picture Corporation First viewing Airways Magnate: We don’t deal in ‘em. It is the near future (as of 1935).  The Channel Tunnel was completed in 1940 and a Bahamas-Miami Tunnel is p   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on January 30, 2012

I’ll admit I’m cheating a little by essaying Transatlantic here, but the film’s final few moments — a gun-in-hand, cat-and-mouse chase over the catwalks and up and down the ladders of the steamy bowels of an ocean liner — is as vividly expressionistic as anything you&#8   read more