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The Ice Flood
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5747 feet
Directed by George B. Seitz
Cast: Kenneth Harlan [Jack De Quincey], Viola Dana [Marie O’Neill], Frank Hagney [Pete, the camp bully], Billy Kent Schaefer [Billy], DeWitt Jennings [Jim O’Neill, Marie’s father], George Irving [Thomas De Quincey, Jack’s father], Norman Deming [‘Dumb’ Danny]; Fred Kohler [‘Cougar Kid’], Kitty Barlow [the cook], [?] ? [Leon], [?] ? [Albert], [?] ? [Doctor Ellsworth]
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Universal-Jewel Production]. / Scenario by George B. Seitz and Gladys Lehman, from the adaptation by James O. Spearing of the novelette The Brute Breaker by Johnson McCulley. Photographed (cinematography) by Merritt B. Gerstad. Supervising film editor, Maurice Pivar. Film editor, Raymond Curtiss. Titles (intertitles written) by Walter Anthony. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 1926 by Universal Pictures Corporation. Released [?] 2 October 1926 or 23 January 1927? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novelette was previously filmed as The Brute Breaker (1919). Website-AFI erroniously credits the Thomas De Quincey role to James Gordon.
Drama: Northwoods.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 51.
Survival status: Prints exist in private film collections [8mm reduction positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Avalanches - Boats - Books - Business - Children: Handicapped - Crime: Murder (Attempted) - Fights: Fist - Ice - Logging: Lumber camps - Pacific Northwest - Rescues - Special effects: Miniatures - Trophies - USA: Oregon - Wagers: Bets - Water: Rivers - Weapons: Guns (Pistols, Rifles) - Writers: Poets
Listing updated: 1 April 2009.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Hirschhorn-Universal p. 51; Limbacher-Feature p. 117 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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