Deluge (1933) Retro Sci-fi full movie 

90 year old movie that's way better than most the movie's of today. Thanks for showing it.

The effects and miniatures were awesome, a time when great attention was paid to detail and as much realism as the artists could muster.

A pre-code script of great maturity and depth. This long lost classic proves early 30's Hollywood films weren't all about wealthy socialites.

Immediately available! New beachfront property at rock bottom prices. Seriously, I love the black and white films and the special effects were top notch for the time period!

Great FX here! The mini sets. These were ONE take only! All the hard work of the build & flood. Amazing!

No actresses have ever given better performances than these two. Inheriting the best of silent movies lyricism and pure expression with speech, they reached the summit of acting.

A surprisingly good movie, with a good emotional story. Some comments took issue with the ending but given the mores of 1933, this seemed like the right outcome as sad as it was.

It seems strikingly clear that this amazing film is the absolute Mama of All modern Disaster/Survival films. Kudos for providing!

Loved the showing of the USS Macon and it being put inside the hanger at Moffett Field. Two years later it crashed into Monterey Bay.

I had to laugh when they flashed the "Astronomical Solar Society" plaque. I'm pretty sure they NEVER just used their acronym. The effects were light years ahead of their time and much better than many used for decades after this film was made. Nice one, @Broken_Trout.

1933 - God and nature can destroy the world 2022 - Mankind - no thanks, we'll just do it ourselves.

Great movie. Never saw anything quite like it. First part a little over the top but the rest of the way--fantastic! Then the love triangle. Wow! How brilliantly written and performed! And the ending! Wow! What a perfect ending! June 21, 2023. St.Joseph, MO, USA

Wow, this movie was an AMAZING find. I loved it! Thanks for posting this!

Peggy Shannon did a spectacular job in this '33 movie. Quite beautiful I may add. Her career was cut short by a heart attack at only 34 years old. Her husband committed suicide shortly after, in the same chair she died in... now that's love...almost a Hollywood script.

Idk how I hadn't seen this film before now but wow ... Way ahead of the times! Well done 👍

What set this movie apart from other early 30s movies is the dialogue and acting isn't stiff and wooden like other films of that era.

It sort of reminded me of Hurricane - the original disaster hurricane movie of the 1930’s. The effects were surprisingly good, very very artistic and beautiful. The elements of pathos, human courage and love were expertly portrayed, IMO.

Give Clare an Olympic swimming gold medal.

SpacTacular! This is going straight into my 'best films on RU-vid' folder!!

I like the way the whole city crumbles. Godzilla did not have to do a thing!

If it weren't for the deluge she wouldn't have been able to escape totally loved the story thank you for sharing @Broken Trout 👍🏼👍🏼

Forrest J Ackerman had a Science Fiction museum, and he was the one behind translating the Perry Rhodan books from German to English. Part of my collection of these books are supposedly from his collection, after he died but I have no documentation.

Deluge is credited as the very first narrative disaster film. It is an important historic piece as little did they realize they were creating a whole new classic genre.

Emotionally gripping ending. Few films back then or even today go to such a bad event conclusion. Unique.

The roving bands of men were a nice touch I must say.

A PS- A big section of "Deluge" was filmed in Bronson Caverns in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. Bronson Caverns may be the most used film location in the world, and after a short walk, you can visit where "Deluge", and bona fide classics like the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Ride The High Country", and "I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang" were shot. Also dreck like "The Cyclops", "Brain From The Planet Arous", and delightfully crappy "Robot Monster", too.

Already plenty of accolades in the descriptions, so I'll just add mine; a completely enjoyable movie, what a treasure for my evening that I stumbled upon quite accidentally.✔👏👍

Revolutionary film then and now . 89 years later storyline still contemporary. The rousing "better world" speech at the end is legendary. Excellent script and cool metaphor for the fight over the NEW DEAL that was raging in Congress at the time. The roving band of hooligans seemed more like hobos, just the red headed Bully was belligerent. Awesome special FX, stand up today, if you don't mind the obvious miniatures. Has the "ship in the bottle" look. RKO was the industry standard at the time.

I just can't get over all the men of the settlement having ironed shirts and pressed suits, even though most resources have been wiped out. But that was the etiquette back then.

The tidal wave hitting the Statue of Liberty is almost identical to the scene in The Day After Tomorrow.

Thank you for being able to post such an old classic film

If you like your disaster movies with men fighting for the only surviving women on Earth, don't miss Deluge. This was a lost film for many years and one I have wanted to see for a long time, and I must say I was not disappointed. Pre code it is forerunner to the end of the world films. The lead actor Sidney Blackmer is best remembered for his role as the warlock in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968). He is so young in this film I did not recognize him, but it's a cinch to recognize that voice. Good flick, recommended★★★.

Gotta love the pree-code 'find a dame in her underwear and bring her in the house' scene!

Wow, Clear picture and great sound for a really old movie!

I thought this was going to be pretty cheesy at the beginning but it turned out to be a surprisingly good movie, and with a most attractive heroine!

I have had more then my fill of apocalypse movies but this was great.

Very nice. Great acting and the miniatures were first rate.

I don’t know why; but, to me, floods are the most fascinating of all disasters. Probably because of “stormy, Misty’s foal”, one of my favorite books, which i first read in 1973.

Fantastic, I had no idea movies like this existed. Very much ahead of its time. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

From what I was told about "Deluge", it was a colaboration between two Poverty Row outfits, KBS Productions (which mostly made cheap westerns) and Tiffany Studios, both feeling the effects of the Great Depression, which was also hitting the major studios hard at the same time. Tiffany, which owned its own small studio and backlot in Hollywood proper, and its own film exchanges, was close to bankruptcy and needed a hit to survive. "Deluge" was filmed on a budget of $171,000, and it looks like most of it was spent on Ned Mann's spectacular special effects. Mann, who created Noah's Flood for Warner Brother's 1928 biblical epic "Noah's Ark", and who would later do the special effects for H.G. Wells' "Things To Come" in 1936, was at this time operating an independent special effects studio, taking on any effects job he could get. The destruction of New York City by earthquake and tidal wave was filmed on the Tiffany lot, though one source says it was shot out in the desert. The miniature city was one hundered feet square, and built in eight sections, each mounted on undulating tracks and electrically powered springs. 19 cameras covered the model, and supposedly when Mann yelled "Action!" he had his back to the vast miniature, knowing if something went wrong, he wouldn't be able to do retakes. Fortunately, nothing went wrong, or if it did, it looked like part of the catastrophe destroying New York. Back then, when $20 was worth $100 in today's money, $171,000 was still an awfully small budget to film a doomsday epic on, but Mann and director Felix Feist managed to pull it off, making every penny count. Even by today's CGI standards, Mann's effects are amazing- The Empire State Building collapsing. Grand Central Station being washed away. A massive tidal wave driving ships into crumbling Manhattan, and if you look for it, there's an ocean liner that has its boiler explode when it grounds on the ruins of a submerged building. If there's any problem with "Deluge", its after the destruction the opens the film, the rest seems anti-climatic. But that's the same trouble with Wright's novel; An unexplained cataclysm sweeps the Earth, destroying civilization, and the survivors struggling afterwards to bring order out of the chaos. Thrilling opening, the rest not as exciting. Still, book or movie, "Deluge" works, but after it was in the can, it was too late to save Tiffany. Like Mann's New York City, the studio collapsed in wave of bankruptcy, and "Deluge" was sold outright to RKO Radio, which had a fair amount of success with it in the theaters. Later, Republic Pictures would buy "Deluge" to use the destruction of New York as stock footage in its serials ("King of the Rocketmen", "Dick Tracy Vs, Crime Inc.") and a feature "SOS Tidal Wave". Then "Deluge" disappeared until Forest Ackerman unearthed the Italian print. This was director Feist's second movie. He wouldn't direct another until 1943. If he's remembered at all, it's for directing the second version of "Donovan's Brain" in 1953. The first was "The Lady and the Monster" starring Vera Hruba Ralston and (incredulous Joseph Cotten voice here) Eric Von Stroheim?

What an amazing movie this must have been. It must have horrified viewers and conquered the box office in its day.

As she kept on 🏊🏼swimming she thought to herself it's time to make a change for me, something for myself,a better future so I must go and be happy, and I could do for myself that no one else can do! thank you for sharing this pretty awesome story with us all Broken Trout two thumbs up 👍🏼❓

Deluge, released USA 18 August 1933. Peggy Shannon as Claire Arlington; Lois Wilson as Helen Webster; Sidney Blackmer as Martin Webster; Matt Moore as Tom; Fred Kohler as Jepson; Ralf Harolde as Norwood; Edward Van Sloan as Prof. Carlysle; Samuel S. Hinds (as Samuel Hinds) as Chief Forecaster; Eddy Chandler, Townsman; Lane Chandler as Jack; Ronnie Cosby as Ronny Webster; Marianne Edwards as Marianne Webster; John Elliott, Preacher; Edward Fielding, Radio Broadcaster; Pat Harmon, Gang Member; Frank Lanning, Townsman; Edward LeSaint, Townsman; Philo McCullough as Bellamy / Gang Leader; Harry Semels, Ugly Gang Member; Edwin Stanley, Radio Announcer; Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Townsman; Billy N. Williams as Marianne Webster.

This film reminds me somewhat of, "When Worlds Collide."

It is hard to believe that this was a "lost film" for a long time. Apparently an Italian dub of the film was discovered in the 1980s but the a copy of the original English dub was found only a few years ago.

That was an odd ending. I thought the two women would organise a triad. It was a better ending than the swim out to sea...

All that without CGI!

This is an amazing movie, especially considering it was released 90 years ago. Very thought provoking and enjoyable. Don't want to give away anything, but very deep issues here.

Another good old movie, This Is Not A Test.

I always enjoyed the way money is re-invented to enable a distribution of goods.

@Broken Trout. I sure do agree she had nerves of steel very smart very brave and a leader not a follower ! Please have a very nice evening thanks for replying and thanks again for sharing I'll be looking out for more awesome movies uploaded by you 🙋🏽🇨🇦💟

He survives the flood so he can marvel at the huge matte painting in the background.

Cool real photo scene of the USS Macon dirigible inside Hanger #1 at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, NJ. I use to work there and now retired from the department of defense.

So far ahead of its time! Epic disaster movies wouldn't become popular for several decades.

Loving all your movies GOD BLESS YOU! Thanks!

This must be one of the earliest disaster movies!

The bedtime prayer by the kids right before the flood was the one I was learned and must have said million times. Well, maybe several thousands. 😂

Ciao!Questi vecchi film sono affascinanti!Bravi a farceli vedere!I am sure..it is an onorable busines buona fortuna!!

Thank you for sharing.

Very cool movie! Equally as being put out today. Very good choice

This movie is as current as tomorrow's headlines. People don't change. If this calamity happened today, people would behave in the same way....some in a moral and ethical manner, many reverting to savages.

Actually for the time this film was made in 1933 it is pretty good

Wow, what great special effects, considering the time.👍👏

The ending scene may have been the inspire source for Bruce Dern’s exit in “Coming Home”.

This is a story of love and love lost. It is hearbreakngly courageous.

Yes all the affects were great folks. ..BUT THE PAIN,N SADNESS OF HER COMMITTING SUICIDE. OVERRIDES ALL OF THE REST. She truly loved him the most. N she proved it. Such a sentiment ending. Very beautiful picture. But very sad.

This is quite a movie; good that it's been preserved. This must be the English version found a few years ago. Well-written and performed by all. Ned Mann created the special effects; he would do so again two years later for Alexander Korda's classic "Things to Come". The Hays Office would have complained about the (lack of) Peggy Shannon (Claire's) outfits, but it's tame by modern standards.

Forest Ackerman....what a guy.

Thank You for showing this excellent picture. 🍿 👍👍

"....I won't give him up, not even for the children..." A really great performance confronting his wife !!!

Well done , thanks for the post . One of the few Sci fi films I have not seen before . The effects were the best of the era !

I thought this was a lost film. How have I missed it? Thanks for the upload.

Some of the scenes of the flooding of the city look like Tsunami footage from a few years ago.

That was perhaps the most unsatisfactory ending I've ever seen. 😕

What a little "gem" of a movie this is! Great special effects (for 1933)! I wonder if this movie could/should be "colorized" and the soundtrack put into STEREO! Just a thought, still a good little movie and I sincerely thank you for the upload!

Saw this many years ago.....not wild about the ending, but it was stark reality in the world we live in today also.

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never seen this before very well done for it's time now days everything is cgi thanx!

Very good movie I stumbled onto it never heard of this before. Made the same year & the same studio as "King Kong". Surprisingly a lost film a very well done pre-code movie. It's timeless with a great story. Thanks for this rare treasure.

This movie is better then the movie Earthquake.

Great Film!!

1933 pre code. nice how they touch on the not so nice side of us men. good movie

Great example of the desaster movies of it's time.

Good movie for 1933!!!

Majestic (a poverty row company) took their huge profit from the surprise hit "The Vampire Bat," built a very large stage and made this movie, (distributed by Radio) and lost their butts. Majestic became part of the new Republic Pictures Corporation. I believe the stage has been converted to a public storage facility.

Wow this movie is priceless and very well done ❤

Great movie, thanks BT.

32:22 - They've got this exactly right, I'm sure. In a post - apocalypse society gold and silver coins or bars would be nothing more than lumps of metal. Gold would make good bullets and silver would be of some use as electrical connections but only slightly superior to copper or iron. All of those who had stashed gold and silver as their 'survival hoard' throughout their lives would find it to be of little value to people in need of water, food, and basic necessities

I was really hoping that the three of them would come up with a solution.

Samuel S. Hinds played Pa Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life", I thought I knew his voice.

This time the Statue of Liberty survived.

13:37 amazing...

Wow!

the two actresses were amazing! But this guy finds his wife and kids and tells his wife he can't decide?! How sick is that guy?

RePosted: John Morris 10 months ago Deluge, released USA 18 August 1933. Peggy Shannon as Claire Arlington; Lois Wilson as Helen Webster; Sidney Blackmer as Martin Webster; Matt Moore as Tom; Fred Kohler as Jepson; Ralf Harolde as Norwood; Edward Van Sloan as Prof. Carlysle; Samuel S. Hinds (as Samuel Hinds) as Chief Forecaster; Eddy Chandler, Townsman; Lane Chandler as Jack; Ronnie Cosby as Ronny Webster; Marianne Edwards as Marianne Webster; John Elliott, Preacher; Edward Fielding, Radio Broadcaster; Pat Harmon, Gang Member; Frank Lanning, Townsman; Edward LeSaint, Townsman; Philo McCullough as Bellamy / Gang Leader; Harry Semels, Ugly Gang Member; Edwin Stanley, Radio Announcer; Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Townsman; Billy N. Williams as Marianne Webster.

Loved the minture city's and toy ships in the harbour

They sure went through a lot of legos!

Thank you for this! ! So cool !

There's a cool article on miniatures in film in the December 1935 issue of Modern Mechanix (Internet Archive) that shows how they created the NYC skyline in miniature in this film using buildings as tall as a man.

“Pick yourself up wipe yourself off and start all over again”!