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Déluge sur la ville

Original title: Flood!
  • TV Movie
  • 1976
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
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Déluge sur la ville (1976)
Flood: That Water Is Getting High
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After several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is ready to burst. But the town's mayor refuses to open its gates - paving the way for disaster.After several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is ready to burst. But the town's mayor refuses to open its gates - paving the way for disaster.After several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is ready to burst. But the town's mayor refuses to open its gates - paving the way for disaster.

  • Director
    • Earl Bellamy
  • Writer
    • Don Ingalls
  • Stars
    • Robert Culp
    • Martin Milner
    • Barbara Hershey
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    • Director
      • Earl Bellamy
    • Writer
      • Don Ingalls
    • Stars
      • Robert Culp
      • Martin Milner
      • Barbara Hershey
    • 17User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Robert Culp
    Robert Culp
    • Steve Brannigan
    Martin Milner
    Martin Milner
    • Paul Burke
    Barbara Hershey
    Barbara Hershey
    • Mary Cutler
    Richard Basehart
    Richard Basehart
    • John Cutler
    Carol Lynley
    Carol Lynley
    • Abbie Adams
    Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall
    • Mr. Franklin
    Cameron Mitchell
    Cameron Mitchell
    • Sam Adams
    Eric Olson
    • Andy Cutler
    Teresa Wright
    Teresa Wright
    • Alice Cutler
    Francine York
    Francine York
    • Daisy Kempel
    Whit Bissell
    Whit Bissell
    • Dr. Ted Horne
    Leif Garrett
    Leif Garrett
    • Johnny Lowman
    Ann Doran
    Ann Doran
    • Emma Fisher
    Elizabeth Rogers
    Elizabeth Rogers
    • Nancy Lowman
    James Griffith
    James Griffith
    • Charlie Davis
    Edna Helton
    • Mrs. Wilson
    Gloria Stuart
    Gloria Stuart
    • Mrs. Parker
    Jack Collins
    Jack Collins
    • Jack Spangler
    • Director
      • Earl Bellamy
    • Writer
      • Don Ingalls
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    5Hey_Sweden

    Strictly middle-of-the-road stuff.

    The first project for Warner Bros. For "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen, this TV movie stars Martin Milner ('Adam-12') as Paul Burke, who just KNOWS that leaks in the local dam mean BIG trouble. Their local lake is already overflowing with rain water. Naturally, when town mayor John Cutler (Richard Basehart, "Moby Dick") keeps mum about engineering problems with the dam, it ends up bursting and flooding their whole town. Burke has no time to say "I told you so" what with all the chaos that erupts.

    There isn't much room here for large-scale death & destruction given that Allen probably didn't have a big budget for special effects. The story itself, written by Don Ingalls ('Honey West', 'Fantasy Island') is as routine as you can expect, and awash in cliches: too many of the characters remain Stubborn Dummies (with Cutler being the worst offender; he's a profit-minded politician who thinks that Burke is just being an alarmist) until everything happens that Burke said would happen. Still, there are people like hard-working Sam Adams (Cameron Mitchell, 'The High Chaparral') who never give up trying to solve the problem.

    Directed in strictly workmanlike fashion by Earl Bellamy ("Part 2: Walking Tall"), 'Flood' is nevertheless reasonably entertaining, although it does naturally get more involving once the disaster is underway.

    The cast of familiar faces gives it all the gravitas that they can muster: Robert Culp ('I Spy'), Barbara Hershey ("Black Swan"), Teresa Wright ("Shadow of a Doubt"), Francine York ("The Doll Squad"), Whit Bissell ("Creature from the Black Lagoon"), Leif Garrett ("The Outsiders"), Ann Doran ("Rebel without a Cause"), James Griffith ("The Killing"), and Gloria Stuart ("Titanic" '97). Also among the guest stars are Carol Lynley and Roddy McDowall (Roddy is given practically nothing to do), from Allens' "The Poseidon Adventure".

    'Flood' is far from the best or the worst of its kind; at its best it's basically a decent example of this genre. But it should entertain you if you dig disaster flicks.

    Five out of 10.
    6satterwh

    Watchable, but could use more disaster

    Irwin Allen was the king of disaster movies. It's not a surprise that he would base one around a flood. The film was OK, but the disaster wasn't the main thrust of the film.

    From the beginning, the story line revolves around Paul Blake (Martin Milner) trying to convince the mayor that the town dam was unsafe. Richard Basehart as the mayor did a good job in the mayor's role. Probably the best performance was given by Robert Culp as helicopter pilot Steve Branagan.

    My main criticism is that for a film built around the disaster, the disaster itself seemed underplayed. Stock footage of floods (it was a TV movie, so probably not big FX budget), and a brief time for its depiction.

    Watch for 70's teen idol Leif Garrett to have a small part in this.

    I'm a fan of the genre, so I gave it a 6. Your mileage may vary.
    5utgard14

    Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good

    You ever watch a movie where the protagonist, even if he's in the right, is just so pushy and unlikable that you root against him? That's how it is with me and this TV disaster movie from producer Irwin Allen. The hero here is played by Martin Milner. He spends the entire first hour of the movie yelling at everyone, including women and senior citizens, one of whom he manhandles. He's so intense in every scene. It's like he's looking for a fight, even when he's talking to his buddy or his (much younger) girlfriend. He really got on my nerves. Then the flood comes and yay he was right - I guess - but I just kept hoping the flood would get him. Really obnoxious character. I found the selfish mayor putting people's lives in danger more sympathetic than this guy. Imagine watching Jaws and you root for the shark because Brody is such a dick.

    Anyway, once the flood starts the movie becomes more entertaining, although even that is limited by TV budget restrictions. The rest of the cast is solid, with Robert Culp my favorite. There's a subplot involving a bandana of his that I found more interesting than every single thing involving Milner's character.
    StuOz

    The First Half Is Just So Good, Then ...

    Irwin Allen disaster movie about a flood.

    Wonderful Richard LaSalle (Land Of The Giants) music scores the great location footage of the town and the endless helicopter footage. That is what Irwin Allen calls film showmanship. Irwin always gets the correct music for what is on the screen. Many producers do not.

    In the first half of this movie Robert Culp (Outer Limits) and Martin Milner (Swiss Family Robinson) do wonders as they move around the town warning of disaster to come. Both actors perform very well. Richard Basehart is all wrong for this role of the man with something bad to hide, what was Irwin thinking by casting Basehart in this role? Poor old Whit Bissell is looking v-e-r-y old in 1976.

    When the flood happens in the second half of the film, this is the problem area. We, the viewer, do not feel like we are watching a real flood. In 1977, Irwin Allen made another TV movie like this called "Fire", in that, the fire seemed real. In yet another 1979 Irwin TV movie "Cave-In", we had the Flood problem of a TV budget not being good enough for a disaster movie.

    See Flood, just to get another taste of Irwin Allen showmanship, but don't expect too much.
    6Coventry

    Rates 2.75 (out of five) on the "cliched 70s disaster movie" scale!

    Among many other contemporary trends, hypes and sub-genres of the glorious 70s decade, yours truly is a diehard fan of typical disaster movies of that era! I love them so much! I've seen so many that I even developed a specific rating principle to check, via five simple little traits, if a certain disaster movie qualifies as good enough cheesy & clichéd entertainment!

    Condition #1: without producer Irwin Allen, there wasn't a budget for special effects and thus no movie. Well, Allen was the producer of "Flood", but it's a made-for-TV film and hence the budget was significantly smaller than in, say, "The Towering Inferno" or "The Poseidon Adventure". Still, for a TV-film, it's looking quite good, so I'll give it 0,5 points. Condition #2: all disaster movies star one major star (Charlton Heston and Paul Newman were prime choices) and a long list of "secondary" stars (like Ernest Borgnine, Leslie Nielsen...). Another 0,5 points scored here. For reasons linked to the TV-movie status, there isn't a major star, but the list of secondary stars is nevertheless long and impressive: Robert Culp, Barbara Hershey, Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Roddy McDowall, Francine York, Teresa Wright, ... Condition #3: The characters are usually split into two camps with completely opposite ideals and/or initiatives. Oh, definitely the case here! The little Oregon fishing town of Brownsville is recovering after weeks of heavy rainfall and storm winds. Local entrepreneurs Steve and Paul are persuaded that the ecologically built dam will burst and drown the entire town, whereas the stubborn mayor irresponsibly keeps proclaiming that the dam will hold. Who do you think is right? Full point! Condition #4: Regardless what type of disaster we're dealing with, variants of the exact same perilous situations are always applicable. Yes, but limited. We have 9-months-pregnant women trapped in their homes, missing children and elderly women sacrificing themselves to rescue others, but that's about it. 0.75 points! Condition #5: always remember that, when the situation appears to be at its worst, it can and will still get even worse! I'm not handing out a point here. There aren't any sharks or piranhas coming along with the flood, the central hospital doesn't collapse, or the helicopter doesn't crash. So, theoretically speaking, Brownsville could be worse off.

    All this adds up to a proper 2.75 rating, meaning "Flood!" is a recommendable and engaging disaster movie IF you are already familiar with the genre and if you are relatively tolerant. In case you seek pure blockbuster-fun, better stick to the mastodons of the era, like "Towering Inferno", "Earthquake" or the "Airport"-series.

    PS: I'm still waiting for news on Roddy McDowall's character! Did he make it?

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      This TV movie was Irwin Allen's first project with Warner Bros. Studios after having moved over from 20th Century-Fox, where he had mastered both mediums of television and films for sixteen years. Warners and 20th Century Fox had actually co-produced Allen's then most recent theatrical feature, La tour infernale (1974), the first time that two studios combined forces on making a single film.

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    • Release date
      • November 24, 1976 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Flood
    • Filming locations
      • Brownsville, Oregon, USA
    • Production companies
      • Irwin Allen Productions
      • Warner Bros. Television
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      • $2,500,000 (estimated)
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      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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