DELUGE (1933) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Felix E. Feist
Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer, Lois Wilson,
Fred Kohler, Ralf Harolde, Edward Van Sloan
A pre-Code disaster adventure that begins where most disaster movies leave off (or never get to) - the end of the world. After that's all over - it takes a reel or two for all those model skyscrapers to topple over - it's up to the survivors to figure out how to carry on. This looks a lot like an early-'30s serial, with close calls and narrow escapes and music in the background that never shuts off. Long considered a lost film, it's also a strange one that always seems about to go off in some unexpected direction, and does, with a final existential image that, under the circumstances, feels just right.
