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Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros., 1928, with a Vitaphone score and some talk. A modern war romance is cut against the Flood: Dolores Costello and George O’Brien in both halves. Darryl Zanuck’s story. The deluge was staged with water released on extras; several were injured, a fact the later literature does not treat as rumor. Curtiz was still new to the studio. The biblical half is DeMille grammar on a Warners lot. The war half is the justification for the ark. A hybrid, already half a talkie, about two disasters sharing a cast.
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Real water released on real extras, and several were hurt; the literature no longer calls that a rumor. A modern war romance cut against the Flood, half a talkie already. Curtiz was new at Warners. Watch the deluge, then think about who is in it.
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