The Flood (1931)
Overview
The story centers on a sordid love triangle involving a woman and two men. Their personal tensions and romantic complications reach a breaking point just as the local infrastructure fails. The climax of the film occurs when a massive dam bursts, unleashing a catastrophic flood. This disaster serves as the ultimate resolution for the characters' interpersonal struggles, forcing a conclusion to their conflicting relationships through the life-and-death stakes of the inundation.
Cast
Eleanor Boardman
Joan Marshall
Monte Blue
David Bruce
Frank Sheridan
David Bruce Sr.
David Newell
Randolph Bannister
William V. Mong
Colonel Marshall
Eddie Tamblyn
Willy
Arthur Hoyt
Uncle George
Ethel Wales
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