The Johnstown Flood (1926)
Genre: Drama | Disaster Movie
Country: USA | Director: Irving Cummings
Language: Music with English Intertitles | Subtitles: None
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 68mn
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017010/
Tom O’Day is loved by two women, Anna Burger and Gloria Hamilton. Tom has no idea of Anna’s love for him, and he becomes engaged to Gloria. Gloria’s uncle, John Hamilton, is a wealthy lumber man who controls a dam upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He wants the water behind the dam kept at the highest level in order to facilitate his logging contracts. But Tom knows that the dam is faulty and endangers thousands of people in the valley below. A massive flood seems inevitable unless Tom can convince Hamilton to allow the floodgates to open and reduce the danger.
The Johnstown Flood re-creates one of the greatest disasters in American history, when, in 1889, over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, lost their lives. In her first major role, Gaynor plays a teenage girl smitten with dashing engineer O’Brien, whose pleadings about the imminent collapse of the local dam are ignored. It’s up to Gaynor to ride through the street à la Paul Revere to warn the townspeople of the imminent disaster. After 97 years, the movie’s flood sequence is still a pre-CGI marvel of optical effects, matte paintings, and miniatures.
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