Deluge (film)

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Deluge
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Produced by Sam Bischoff
Starring Peggy Shannon
Sidney Blackmer
Lois Wilson
Matt Moore
Fred Kohler, Jr.
Music by Val Burton
Cinematography Norbert F. Brodin
Editing by Martin G. Cohn
Rose E. Loewinger
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates August 13, 1933
Running time 70 min.
Country United States
Language English
This article is about the American science fiction film. For the Polish historical film, see The Deluge (film)

Deluge (1933) is an apocalyptic science fiction film, released by RKO Radio Pictures, about a group of worldwide natural disasters which lead to the destruction of the earth.

The film is very loosely based on the novel of the same name by S. Fowler Wright, with the setting changed from England to the United States. A series of earthquakes destroy the Pacific coast of the United States, causing a massive tsunami, which heads toward New York City. The wave leaves New York submerged in water and nearly all inhabitants of the city drown. This special effect sequence later inspired a scene in The Day After Tomorrow (2004).

The impressive effects were done by a team who later worked on the H. G. Wells-scripted film Things to Come (1936).

Preservation status

For many years, Deluge was thought to be a lost film, but a print dubbed in Italian was found in a film archive in Italy in the late 1980s. Before the discovery, the only part of the film known to survive was the impressive footage of the tidal wave destroying New York City, which was used in the Republic Pictures serials Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc (1941) and King of the Rocket Men (1949).

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