Working with parallell narratives, one telling the title story and the other of a WW I-era train wreck, this epic spectacular is a film with a tragic history that illustrates that back in its early years, movie-making was truly risky business.
...An actress and crew members are injured on the set of Warner Bros.’ “Noah’s Ark” during Michael Curtiz’s filming of the Great Flood scene. Rumor is that three extras were killed, though that has never been substantiated.
Originally a silent film - and then made into an early 'talkie' a year later (with several stultifying scenes of Vitaphone sound-on-disk dialogue) -- this early romantic drama and disaster film was about the Biblical (Genesis) story of the 'Great Flood.'
Working with parallell narratives, one telling the title story and the other of a WW I-era train wreck, this epic spectacular is a film with a tragic history that illustrates that back in its early years, movie-making was truly risky business.
...An actress and crew members are injured on the set of Warner Bros.’ “Noah’s Ark” during Michael Curtiz’s filming of the Great Flood scene. Rumor is that three extras were killed, though that has never been substantiated.
Originally a silent film - and then made into an early 'talkie' a year later (with several stultifying scenes of Vitaphone sound-on-disk dialogue) -- this early romantic drama and disaster film was about the Biblical (Genesis) story of the 'Great Flood.'
