The Sin Flood (1922 film)
1922 film by Frank Lloyd, Harry Weil
The Sin Flood is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Dix and Helene Chadwick. It was distributed by Goldwyn Pictures.
The story was remade by First National and Warner Brothers in 1930 as the early talkie The Way of All Men, now lost as well. Frank Lloyd again directed and William Orlamond returned as Nordling.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Bill Bear, a cotton broker's clerk in the Mississippi river town of Cottonia, is in love with a chorus girl named Poppy. He learns that his crabbed employer Fraser is attempting to corner the market and uses this knowledge to enter into a partnership with Fraser's enemy Swift. They grow rich and Bill becomes engaged to Swift's daughter. On the day of the wedding, however, Bill, Poppy, Fraser, Swift, a street preacher with a taste for alcohol, a plain drunk, stranded Swedish engineer Nordling, an out-at-elbows actor, corporate lawyer Sharpe, saloon keeper Stratton, and a bartender are imprisoned in Stratton's cafe by a sudden flood. The Stratton had water-tight doors and shutters installed on his cafe due to a previous flood, and these are shut. The electric lights, telephone, and market price ticker are soon cut off.
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