S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Sci-Fi
Release: 1939-06-02
Director: John H. Auer
Writers: Gordon Kahn , Maxwell Shane , James Webb
Language: English
Stars: Ralph Byrd , George Barbier , Kay Sutton , Frank Jenks , Marc Lawrence , Dorothy Lee , Oscar O’Shea , Mickey Kuhn , Ferris Taylor , Don ‘Red’ Barry
Runtime: 62 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Televisión al rescate (Mexico) , S.O.S. Tidal Wave , S.O.S. na Onda Tidal (Brazil) , Uma Nação em Pânico (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , S.O.S. Tidal Wave (United States of America)
Plot: Newsman Jeff Shannon wants to expose political corruption in his city, but backs off when his wife and son are threatened. On election day politicians try to prevent voting by broadcasting footage from the disaster film Deluge (1933) to keep everyone watching the developing (fake) story that NYC is hit by a massive tidal wave. But Shannon realizes the story is a trick.
IMDB:tt0031886