Noah's Ark

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Tom P @tpease1 2d Sometimes you get points for just being over the top. Who would have thought to create parallel stories of Noah’s flood and a WWI romance. There is certainly lots of room to criticize this film, but the flood scene alone is so outrageous and well executed, all is forgiven. Add to this the sound dialogue combined with the use of intertitles - that was pretty cutting edge for its time. Finally, there’s the social context, the condemnation of the lust for wealth just a year before the stock market crash. This is not a perfect film, but it has a lot of redeeming value. Well worth then watch. See more 11/15/2015 WB's answer 2 Paramount's Cecil b DeMille See more 07/24/2013 The stagy, slow epic contrasting the story of Noah's Arc & the First World War. Unfortunately there is much more time spent of the WW1 story than Noah's Arc. This is one of those silent films with audible dialogue sequences. However all the many scenes where the flooding takes place and fantastic & the use of models & real set pieces is terrific. Four Extras actually died in this film due to water flowing to fast & an extras not being able to keep afloat. This film is bogged down by WW1 story but the biblical scenes are terrific. See more 02/10/2012 I enjoyed this film. It's a story that combines the biblical story of Noah's ark with a romance in World War 1. At first you may wonder how this can work and at times question how it works but it somehow does. It's beautifully done and it does work. This film was made in 1928 when the cross over to talkies were being made. This film illustrates this cross over well. It was made as a silent but later added some sound. This I thought enhanced the film. www.what-to-watch.com See more 04/29/2011 Ambitious work by Michael Curtiz on the cusp of the sound era. Great pains are taken to draw parallels between a WW1 3-act romantic melodrama and the Biblical flood. Scenes with sound were shoehorned into the melodrama with limited success and it will hardly compete with the Rick/Ilsa/Louis/Strasser tangle Curtiz would weave so perfectly in Casablanca. The Biblical stuff is made on an epic scale and could easily compete with the best Biblical epics of the silent era were it not for the forced historical parallels. Amazing sets are deluged and extras died in the filming. In short, you have a 4-star epic and its conjoined 3-star wartime love triangle in the hands of a genius director who almost makes this schizophrenic jumble work. See more 04/05/2011 The WWI story is a standard melodrama, but the Biblical story is a spectacular production. See more Read all reviews

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