The Flood (1931)

Overview

The story centers on a sordid love triangle involving a woman and two men. Their personal tensions and romantic complications reach a breaking point just as the local infrastructure fails. The climax of the film occurs when a massive dam bursts, unleashing a catastrophic flood. This disaster serves as the ultimate resolution for the characters' interpersonal struggles, forcing a conclusion to their conflicting relationships through the life-and-death stakes of the inundation.

Cast

Eleanor Boardman

Joan Marshall

Monte Blue

David Bruce

Frank Sheridan

David Bruce Sr.

David Newell

Randolph Bannister

William V. Mong

Colonel Marshall

Eddie Tamblyn

Willy