I asked this years ago and no one had jack. I’ll try again.
When I was a kid (early '70’s), my dad took me to see a British movie about two kids in a town that gets flooded.
One scene stands out in my (fuzzy) memory. The little girl starts crying about her mother being dead. Her brother says something like “we don’t know she’s dead until we see her floating belly-up.” Then, as if on cue, mum goes floating by belly-up.
I would love to know what the hell that movie was!
The British movie The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), from the D.H. Lawrence novel, involves a flood in a northern English village when a dam breaks in the 1920s. Do you remember a handsome gypsy who told fortunes?
Thanks for the response, but no.
The story revolved almost entirely about the two kids who take refuge in the upper floors of the buildings of the town. It seemed as if everyone in town was dead.
How about the British film The Flood (1963), which Hal Erickson in the All Movie Guide describes thus:
That has to be it. How many movies can there be that match that description?
Thanx
Upon further review, that isn’t it! That movie is in B&W while the one I saw was in color.
I may never find the answer to this one.
I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDB board, and one of the experts posited that your movie might be The Little Ark (1972).
This is it! I was off on the nationality, but I was 5 or 6 years old so cut me some slack.
That movie was pure hell to sit through. Drepessing as hell for such a little kid to sit through. Maybe if I saw it now I would take a kinder view of it, but in my little eyes it was a never-ending nightmare.