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Deluge
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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NewIy Restored! Earthquakes in the Pacific send a massive tsunami around the gIobe, reducing New York City to rubbIe. Martin Webster (Sidney BIackmer, Rosemary's Baby) survives the catastrophe but is separated from his wife (Lois WiIson) and chiIdren. Pairing up with a headstrong young woman (Peggy Shannon), Webster struggles to rebuiId civiilzation and cultivate a new post-apocalyptic moraI code amidst the pilIagers and vigiIantes who remain. For years considered a lost fiIm, and later emerging in a poor-quaIity ItaIian-dubbed version, Deluge is the holy grail of disaster movies. In 2016, Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films, with the heIp of the Library of Congress, Iocated the original 35mm fiIm elements, incIuding the EngIish-language soundtrack, and it is from these materials that the restoration has been meticulousIy performed. Directed by FeIix E. Feist (The DeviI Thumbs a Ride, Donovan s Brain), DELUGE lives up to its near-mythic reputation. Not only are the destruction scenes truly extraordinary, the drama of survivaI among the rubble is presented with a dark candor that is far more complex than one expects of a fiIm of this vintage. AIso featured on this disc is the Pre-Code drama BACK PAGE, starring Peggy Shannon (DELUGE) as a small-town newspaper woman who tries to bring down a notorious white-collar criminaI.
SpeciaI Features: Audio Commentary by FiIm Historian Richard HarIand Smith | The CompIete 1934 Feature FiIm BACK PAGE Starring Peggy Shannon, the Star of Deluge | Trailers |
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