Noah's Ark (1928)

Directed by

Anthony Coldeway, Darryl F. Zanuck, Michael Curtiz

Genre

drama film, silent film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

M/12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film intercuts a modern story of two lovers in World War I with a biblical telling of the Flood. It shows Noah building the ark and the destruction that follows.

epicmelodramaticdatedspectacularsentimentalmoralisticquietgrandiose

What happens

Noah's Ark is a 1928 American part-talkie epic disaster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello and George O'Brien. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The story is by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Most scenes are silent with a synchronized music score and sound effects, in particular the biblical ones, while some scenes have dialogue. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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