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Post by spiderwort on Oct 28, 2019 19:27:29 GMT
Natural or otherwise, the whole film or only a sequence. Sadly prompted by the fires in California. Grasshoppers attacking fields in The Days of Heaven (1978) Climate change in The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 28, 2019 19:41:33 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO -- Earthquake
IN OLD CHICAGO -- Fire
THE DEVIL AT FOUR O'CLOCK -- Volcano Eruption
THE IMPOSSIBLE -- Tsunami
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 28, 2019 21:23:15 GMT
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Post by telegonus on Oct 28, 2019 21:39:20 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO -- Earthquake IN OLD CHICAGO -- Fire THE DEVIL AT FOUR O'CLOCK -- Volcano Eruption THE IMPOSSIBLE -- Tsunami
Good ones, Matt, and golden oldies:
The Good Earth features a swarm of locusts that I think qualifies as a natural disaster, or it does for humans.
A couple of years later the same studio (MGM) made a much beloved film whose main story was jump-started by a tornado: The Wizard Of Oz. (I read somewhere that in the old days MGM had a fondness for making films that in some way featured a natural disaster in them. I suppose the storm at sea in China Seas would qualify.)
Key Largo features a natural disaster in the form of a nasty tropical storm, and a somewhat unnatural disaster in the form of its villain, Johnny Rocco.
Before he became a big name on TV David Janssen played a forest ranger in a well made natural disaster film, not widely seen, Ring Of Fire. (Yes, its about a forest fire.)
Some ten years earlier there was another similarly themed film Red Skies Of Montana, featuring Richard Widmark in the lead.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 28, 2019 22:00:46 GMT
There's a plague of locusts in Brigham Young (1940) but the pesky critters musta eaten all the photos right off of the net.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 28, 2019 22:11:02 GMT
Drought in The Man Who Fell To Earth  |
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Post by politicidal on Oct 28, 2019 23:31:42 GMT
Incomplete w/o a mention about Irwin Allen's filmography as producer and director for a number of disaster themed blockbusters-and one notorious flop.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 28, 2019 23:57:23 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Oct 29, 2019 8:16:21 GMT
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Post by cynthiagreen on Oct 29, 2019 8:29:59 GMT
This one offers good value for money, with a monsoon, an earthquake, a flood and a cholera epidemic included in the plot, with the bonus value of a hot interracial romance to enliven the waits between the various disasters on offer, and as the cherry on the top we get Tyrone Power in a turban. The novel is an absorbing read.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 29, 2019 14:20:56 GMT
 Krakatoa is actually west of Java but the studio was trying to invoke feelings about East of Eden.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 29, 2019 14:24:27 GMT
Sometimes a volcano can come in handy!  |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 29, 2019 14:30:54 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 29, 2019 14:34:24 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 29, 2019 17:31:12 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 29, 2019 18:21:36 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 29, 2019 19:26:32 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 29, 2019 21:32:42 GMT
Oh, Bravo, I'm so glad you included this one. it's such an important docudrama about a very serious man-made catastrophe, developed and produced by Alan Lansburg, who dedicated himself to doing socially conscious subjects back in the day. Not a great movie, but a very good and important one. Thanks.
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 30, 2019 0:30:35 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 30, 2019 0:36:43 GMT
Irwin Allen struck one last time.  |
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