Deluge (1933)

56% User Rating

1h 10min

"CONTINENTS WERE SWEPT AWAY... AND WITH THEIR LAWS AND MORALS!"

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.

Felix E. FeistDirector

Cast

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Lois Wilson

Helen Webster

Sidney Blackmer

Martin Webster

Peggy Shannon

Claire Arlington

Matt Moore

Tom

Fred Kohler

Jepson

Edward Van Sloan

Professor

Samuel S. Hinds

Chief Forecaster

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Townsman

Marianne Edwards

Marianne Webster

Ronnie Cosby

Ronny Webster

Philo McCullough

Bellamy / Gang Leader

Lane Chandler

Jack

Reviews (1)

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CinemaSerf

Rating 50%

June 13, 2022

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 been the precursors of "Dumb and Dumber" and Fred Kohler ("Jepson") seems to think he's an extra in a "Tarzan" film. It flows along well enough but it largely just washed over me...