PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS****One of the least known Irvin Allen disaster flicks of the 1970's with the usual all star cast but, with an only 2.5 million budget, below par-for Allen-special effects makes its point that you can't mess around with Mother Nature and end up getting away with it. That's the cold or wet hard truth that Brownsville mayor John Cutler, Richard Basehart, finds out when he thinks he can keep the truth about an engineers report about the town dam being defected and about to burst! It's Brownsville top dam mechanic Paul Burke, Martin Milner, who smells a rat in all this and tries to get the people of Brownsville and its surroundings to get the hell out before the dam bursts and they end up under water!The dam's supervisor Sam Adams, Cameron Mitchell, at first goes along with Mayor Cutler's idiotic demands, like the little Dutch boy holding off the Atlantic Ocean with his finger in the dike, to keep the water from overflowing but later realizing that he's both mad and delusional tries to relieve the water pressure only to get swept up with the action or rushing waters. As for Sam's very pregnant wife Abbie played by a previous survivor of an Irvin Allen disaster movie "The Poseidan Adventure" the lovely Carol Lynley is stuck in her house and about to give birth at any moment!***SPOILERS*** With Mayor Cutler now a total mental case, in how bad he screwed things up, it's up to Burke and helicopter pilot Steve Brannigan, Robert Culp, to save the day and the town of Brownsville from going under. With time running out and the water levels from the burst dam rising they not only have to work against the clock to detonate the remaining dam structure to alleviate the water pressure by draining it out but also save Mayor Cutler's son Andy, Eric Olsen,from it engulfing him and everyone still left alive in town! The rest of the cast has Barbara Hershey as Mayor Cutler's daughter and Paul Burke's girlfriend. It's Mary who's also a nurse in the local hospital. There's also Mary's mom and Cutler's wife Alice, Teresa Wright, who tragically doesn't survive the flood by her trying to rescue her son Andy who in fact, in all the confusion, she mistook for someone else.And last but not least in a cameo role Roddy McDowall as, what I think, naturalist Mr. Franklin who after less then three minutes of screen time completely disappears, like a puff of smoke, from off the face of the earth!

ddc300 Better than average made-for-TV disaster film by the master himself, Irwin Allen.Plot in a nutshell: Milner and Culp are believable as the owners/operators of a helicopter company in a small Oregon town. Mayor Richard "Adm. Nelson" Basehart tries to hide the fact that the earthen dam protecting the town of Brownsville is on the verge of collapsing. Milner takes him to task for being concerned only with town commerce and not protecting the lives of his constituents. In the end Milner and Culp use their copter to assist in the rescue of a number of townspeople when the dam finally bursts.Stars Martin Milner, Eric Olsen and Cameron Mitchell were all holdovers from Irwin Allen's short-lived TV series, "Swiss Family Robinson" which went off the air earlier in the year. Look for Irwin Allen 'stock players' like Francine York, Elizabeth Rogers and Whit Bissell in the hospital scenes.

Vomitron_G Well, I recently got a hold of a used VHS tape, very cheap, with 2 disaster-of-nature flicks on it. I stumbled upon them on a flea-market and just took it home because of the cool cover-art (paintings of water/fire-disasters, not shown here on IMDb). So I sat down this afternoon and watched the first one on the tape, FLOOD! And I can say right away that the most exciting thing about this movie indeed was... the cover-art! And, yes, I know this is a 1976 made-for-TV movie, but still I expected quite a lot more from it and I feel like the film-makers could have done a lot better. The first 45 minutes of the movie are just too tedious. Sure, a lot of different characters are introduced, but they say or do nothing interesting at all. And what's even worse: Roddy Mcdowall's character gets introduced during the first scenes (apparantly he's a wealthy tourist on a fishing holiday), and after that, he never re-appears in the movie! The other main characters, basically just couples (husbands & wives and soon-to-be-married folks) have nothing else to do than to basically grab every opportunity to say "I love you" to one and other (over the phone, while meeting in a hospital,...). And naturally, there's this Brannigan-character (played by Robert Culp) running around warning everybody about the dam that's about to break, and of course nobody, especially the mayor (what did you expect?), believes him. I got somewhat excited when Barbara Hershey's name came up on the opening credits, but boy, did she portray one of the most disappointing female characters of the movie! And when the dam finally breaks, it's just pretty pathetic. All you see, is some sort of wall of mud crumbling down. It doesn't even look like a dam. The one thing I really hoped for, was seeing some well-crafted miniatures of town-buildings getting flooded with river water. But nope. Nothing like that at all. One or two shots have some water running through a street (with easy-to-figure-out not-so-special-effects), some living rooms with water in them and a kid floating in a river holding on to a tree. And on top of that, we get several stock footage of real floods (mostly air-shots) which poorly match the main look of the film.So, this really is a rather uneventful film, and the only thing you can say about it is that it's not particularly badly made and features OK acting. It's one of those movies you just might end up watching when it comes up on TV while you're 'zapping' channels and have absolutely nothing else to do. On the other hand, you might also keep on changing channels.I suppose there are fans of disaster-movies out there, and they just might dig FLOOD! on some levels. I just got nothing out of it. I sure hope the other movie (FIRE!) on the tape is better.

slbp_99 Irwin Allen did great on The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure, and The Swarm but this one was not one of his best. The special effects could have been much better. The acting was alright. I would recommend this movie to people who like disaster movies. Or people who have nothing else to do for the next 98 minutes