Academy Awards, USA 1956
| Nominee Oscar | Best Effects, Special Effects |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Jean Negulesco
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Twilight Time)
Lana Turner is unhappily married to British Lord Michael Rennie. He needs her money while she needs his company, so they stay together. She has numerous affairs in the open, with her latest conquest being Indian doctor Richard Burton. However, disaster strikes the area in the form of flooding and a dramatic dam break. Burton is kept busy saving lives, stranding a sick Turner. It is her other friend, Fred MacMurray, who has his own issues, who ends up saving her. Uneasy mix of ludicrous melodrama and overbaked disaster scenes, with poor special effects. Richard Burton is wooden, MacMurray unintentionally hilarious as an alcoholic. However, it does look and sound great, as only big-budget productions from the 1950's can.
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