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The Rains Came

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Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1939-09-15

Runtime: 104 mins

Director: Clarence Brown

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, Romance, Adventure

Original title: The Rains Came

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Myrna Loy

Tyrone Power

George Brent

Brenda Joyce

Nigel Bruce

Maria Ouspenskaya

Joseph Schildkraut

Mary Nash

Jane Darwell

Marjorie Rambeau

Henry Travers

H.B. Warner

Laura Hope Crews

William Royle

Reviews

Geronimo1967

This is a classy adaptation of Lewis Bromfield's tale of the Raj. When the unhappily married "Lady Edwina" (Myrna Loy) and her rather indifferent, pompous, husband "Lord Hesketh" (Nigel Bruce) arrive in the Indian state of "Ranchipur", she meets up with her old friend "Ransome" (George Bent) who arrived many years earlier to paint the portrait of the Maharajah. Even though he's a bit of a rake, the bored "Lady Edwina" enjoys his company away from her disinterested husband - until, that is, she alights on local doctor "Maj. Rama Safti" (Tyrone Power). Now he's a character of some integrity and isn't an obvious choice to accede to her charms, but when an earthquake followed by the monsoon strikes the country, it's all hands to the pump and the two begin to bond for real. None of the characters in this film are who they appear to be, and that's what keeps it interesting. It does stretch the imagination to see Tyrone Power as an Indian doctor, but he has the charisma - and a chemistry with Loy - to just about pull it off. Bruce is having some fun as the horse-loving peer and Maria Ouspenskaya is quite effective as the childless Maharani who must find a suitable heir to their now rather decimated Kingdom. The effects - particularly during the natural disaster scenes are pretty impressive, even now - contributing well to the sense of chaos and disaster and Alfred Newman's score tops it off nicely.

2022-06-22

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