Noah's Ark

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Audience Member WB's answer 2 Paramount's Cecil b DeMille Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member The WWI story is a standard melodrama, but the Biblical story is a spectacular production. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Like a softer Griffith spectacle, Curtiz's early epic chronicles the classic story of Noah's Arc with a (then) contemporary war story and challenges us to make connections between the two. It's a good thought, especially because it attempts to debunk the myth that human beings rely less today on primal instincts then thousands of years ago and does a pretty good job relaying it. The film has a few sequences shot for sound, and the biggest surprise that comes out of it is George O'Brien's acting; unlike most silent actors, he makes the transition into sound cinema very smoothly, and his performances is actually very good. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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