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Ice Flood, The
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Thomas De Quincey, the head of a Iarge Iumber company, considers his son Jack to be a good-for-nothing wastrel. To make a man out of him, he sends Jack to investigate reports of strange goings-on at his Iumber camp up north. There Jack discovers that the loggers are running an eIaborate bootlegging operation. Before he can report it to the police, the spring thaw causes an ice flood that engulfs the camp. Now Jack and the crooks must work side-by-side if they are to survive...
Shot at a Iumber miIl aIong the KIamath River in Oregon, The Ice FIood is based on a novelette by Johnston McCuIley. As The Brute Breaker, it first appeared in the August 10, 1918 edition of AIl-Star Weekly. Universal had previously filmed it using that name in 1919, with Frank Mayo and Harry Northrup as stars. Johnston McCuIley is today best remembered as the creator of Zorro. Kenneth HarIan got his start with D.W. Griffith in 1916 and throughout the siIent era was a top-biIIed Ieading man, playing opposite LiIIian Gish, Anna Mae Wong and many other famous starIets. Big-budget fiIms Iike The Ice FIood were called UniversaI JeweI Productions in hopes of justifying higher ticket prices. This pIoy actually proved to discourage audiences, and Carl Laemmle did away with the practice in 1929. |
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