Deluge (1933)

08/17/1933Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller1h 10m
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CONTINENTS WERE SWEPT AWAY... AND WITH THEIR LAWS AND MORALS!

Overview

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Lois Wilson

    Helen Webster

  2. Cast 1

    Sidney Blackmer

    Martin Webster

  3. Cast 1

    Peggy Shannon

    Claire Arlington

  4. Cast 1

    Matt Moore

    Tom

  5. Cast 1

    Fred Kohler

    Jepson

  6. Cast 1

    Edward Van Sloan

    Professor

  7. Cast 1

    Samuel S. Hinds

    Chief Forecaster

  8. Cast 1

    Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

    Townsman

  9. Cast 1

    Marianne Edwards

    Marianne Webster

The civilised USA of the 1930s is reduced to rubble by a massive natural occurrence that requires man to live a more rudimentary, though not exactly Jurassic, existence. This could have been quite an interesting story, but instead is a rather lolling melodrama as boy meets girl, saves girl from marauding gang of hoodlums before an ending that is really quite twee. Some of the special effects at the start are decent enough (for 1933); but the story and characterisations are flat - nether Peggy Shannon ("Claire") nor Sidney Blackmer ("Martin") bring much to the party - indeed they could have bee...

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