Noah's Ark "War Drama" The elegant George and Ira

The elegant George and Ira Gershwin score includes two standards forever associated with Astaire

While war rages between the local cattlemen and sheepherders

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ethereal music enraptures Cathy

Busby Berkeley production numbers and in their only screen pairing

Noah's Ark "War Drama" The elegant George and IraTwo years after his last European film of the 1920s, filmmaker Michael Curtiz showed his range with this ambitious Warner Bros. production magnificently restored here to its fullest possible running length. Like the earlier The Ten Commandments, the two pronged tale visits Biblical and modern times as it draws a parallel between two fateful eras. Colossal floodwaters roil, great structures topple, Noah and his family survive the worldwide destruction