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DELUGE (RKO 1933)

A major earthquake and huge tidal wave hit the USA destroying everything.
Separated from his wife and children, and thinking them dead, survivor Martin falls in love with Claire who he finds escaping from two men.
Martin has set up a home for himself and has no idea that there is a survivor settlement ten miles away. Also hanging around the area are a group of men who are attacking women. While fighting off the group, a few of the men from the settlement arrive and help. It is then that Martin finds out that his wife and children are alive. But what now happens to Claire?

yeahh! At last. At one time a lost film that resurfaced in 1981 with a print with an Italian soundtrack has now been restored with the English track as a print was found in 2016.
The scenes of destruction are great and there is a lot of model work involved in the earth splitting open and countless buildings collapsing. (Some of the scenes were used in the climax to cliff hanger serial KING OF THE ROCKET MEN). After the mayhem, the film settles in to the story of survivor Martin and his life after the events. Clocking in at 70mins this is great stuff and comes totally recommended.
Available on R1 DVD or Region A blu ray