well and i recently get a hold of a used vhs tape and very cheap and with 2 disaster of nature flick on it . i stumble upon them on a flea market and just take it home because of the cool cover art ( painting of water or fire disaster and not show here on imdb ) . so i sit down this afternoon and watch the first one on the tape and flood . and i can say right away that the most exciting thing about this movie indeed be . the cover art . and and yes and i know this be a 1976 made for tv movie and but still i expect quite a lot more from it and i feel like the film maker could have do a lot well . the first 45 minute of the movie be just too tedious . sure and a lot of different character be introduce and but they say or do nothing interesting at all . and what even bad represent roddy mcdowall character get introduce during the first scene ( apparantly he a wealthy tourist on a fishing holiday ) and and after that and he never re appear in the movie . the other main character and basically just couple ( husband and wife and soon to be married folk ) have nothing else to do than to basically grab every opportunity to say i love you to one and other ( over the phone and while meeting in a hospital and . ) . and naturally and there this brannigan character ( play by robert culp ) run around warn everybody about the dam that about to break and and of course nobody and especially the mayor ( what do you expect . ) and believe him . i get somewhat excited when barbara hershey name come up on the opening credit and but boy and do she portray one of the most disappointing female character of the movie . and when the dam finally break and it just pretty pathetic . all you see and be some sort of wall of mud crumble down . it doesn not even look like a dam . the one thing i really hop for and be see some well crafted miniature of town building get flood with river water . but nope . nothing like that at all . one or two shot have some water run through a street ( with easy to figure out not so special effect ) and some living room with water in them and a kid float in a river hold on to a tree . and on top of that and we get several stock footage of real flood ( mostly air shot ) which poorly match the main look of the film . so and this really be a rather uneventful film and and the only thing you can say about it be that it not particularly badly make and feature ok act . it one of those movie you just might end up watch when it come up on tv while youre zap channel and have absolutely nothing else to do . on the other hand and you might also keep on change channel . i suppose there be fan of disaster movie out there and and they just might dig flood . on some level . i just get nothing out of it . i sure hope the other movie ( fire . ) on the tape be well .