# ID This Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163 "2004-06-19T04:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/1 "2004-06-19T04:19:15Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/2 "2004-06-19T06:40:47Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/3 "2004-06-20T02:25:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/4 "2004-06-20T04:39:40Z")
How about the British film _The Flood_ (1963), which Hal Erickson in the All Movie Guide describes thus: > [@](#): > > Six farm children are perilously isolated when a flood hits their community. The kids brave the onrushing waters until the effort becomes too much to bear. At the last moment, a rescue team is dispatched to save the resourceful sextet. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/5 "2004-06-20T21:04:52Z")
That has to be it. How many movies can there be that match that description? Thanx ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/6 "2004-06-20T21:09:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/7 "2004-06-21T13:41:52Z")
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)](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068864/combined). ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie/251163/8 "2004-06-21T17:08:19Z")
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.