The Johnstown Flood (1926)
1926 · Silent film · 68 min · dir. Irving Cummings
The Thrilling Romance of a Boy and Girl who survived the Terrifying Experience of THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
- Drama
Synopsis
Tom O'Day is loved by two women, Anna Burger and Gloria Hamilton. Tom has no idea of Anna's love for him, and he becomes engaged to Gloria. Gloria's father, John Hamilton, is a wealthy lumber man who controls a dam upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He wants the water behind the dam kept at the highest level in order to facilitate his logging contracts. But Tom knows that the dam is faulty and endangers thousands of people in the valley below. A massive flood seems inevitable…
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Details
- Director
- Irving Cummings
- Writer
- Edfrid A. Bingham
- Cinematography
- George Schneiderman
- Studio
- Fox Film Corporation
- Released
- 1926-02-28
- Running time
- 68 minutes
Cast & crew
Irving Cummings Director
George O'Brien
Florence Gilbert
Janet Gaynor
Anders Randolf
Max Davidson
Paul Nicholson
Paul Panzer
George Harris
