Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

dbdumonteil A disaster movie long before they became popular in the seventies and thus a movie ahead of its time for that matter.The characters are not too much cardboard ,and thanks to John Wayne and to sir Cedric Hardwicke ,when the movie ends ,you do not know exactly who the "villain" was .Laraine Day is beautiful ,she resembles Linda Darnell and she is cast as the tycoon's daughter who falls in love with ... (well,I won't write a spoiler!).The movie is quite enjoyable and even features very good scenes : Wayne and Day,attending the office,and admiring each other ,under the girl's governess watchful incensed eye (Judith Anderson:who else?);in a more tragical mood,the death of the thirty-year-old man afraid of graveyards since he was a child and who wants to be buried in the tunnel is really moving.Aventures and melodrama.

mark.waltz Tunnel blaster boss John Wayne defies the big money man Cedric Hardwicke by falling in love with his daughter, Laraine Day. Hardwicke is vindictive and pulls out his financing which creates all sorts of problems in getting a much needed train tunnel through the mountains. Colorful photography but slow pacing makes this film less than great, but in the hands of professionals, it's a notch above what it could have been. Judith Anderson is memorable in a rare sympathetic role as Hardwicke's secretary who helps Wayne and Day in spite of her own love for Hardwicke who takes her for granted. Anthony Quinn plays the man Hardwicke would rather see his daughter with; James Gleason is amusing as always as Wayne's pal, and young Fernando Alvarado is fine as the young boy who hangs around Wayne and Gleason. Under the direction of Richard Wallace (a name forgotten today, but with a list of impressive, if not spectacular credits), "Tycoon" has some long dull patches, but all of a sudden, the action explodes into excitement. This seems to be a variation of the type of film Cecil B. DeMille was making a few years before (with many people in the cast he would work with), and perhaps it needed someone of DeMille's stature to make it more than average.

C.K. Dexter Haven A few negative comments here must be countered. This film is a little more drama than action, but it strikes a good balance between the two, pleasing surely both wives and their blue collar husbands who saw it back in 1947. Far from terrible, this story offers up some decent conflict, a couple funny moments (get outta the way, pigeons!), romance, suspense, two fisted action, explosions, and the exotic setting of the Peruvian Andes. Not one of John Wayne's very best films, but solid and entertaining fare, a cut above many of his more regarded 40's outings such as The Spoilers and Angel and the Badman. Good performances and a bit of everything for everybody. Duke doesn't disappoint here. Deserves a higher rating.

sol- Laraine Day and John Wayne are well cast, each with their share of strong moments, however these moments are too few, and in between the film is rather dull and lacking in excitement. The storyline and character relationships are predictable: it is all very typical and riding on clichés. The extreme length does not help either, but there is one aspect of this film that is certainly very good: the art direction, captured well in Technicolor, is simply beautiful. In a way it is a shame that this film flopped because it otherwise may have had the chance of an Oscar nomination in the art direction field. However, it is not very good overall and only arguably adequate viewing, so it is not quite worth watching the film just to admire the sets. Perhaps worth a look for Day or Wayne die-hard followers though.