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Title: The Rains Came


Date: 1939
Type: Drama
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Clarence Brown
Producer: Darryl F Zanuck

Comment
An English woman (Myrna Loy) arrives in a remote Indian town with her husband (Nigel Bruce) where she meets an old flame (George Brent) with a reputation and is torn between him and a handsom Indian doctor (Tyrone Power). Meanwhile the daughter of one of the English families has designs on George Brent. All their lives are thrown into disarray when the rains come, earthquake hits and a burst dam coausing flooding and then plague breaks out. The film is all about the various relationships between the characters, the English at the end of the Empire, Indian's taking back control and with love intermingled. Myrna Loy carries the film, but there are good performances from Tyrone Power, Brenda Joyce and Maria Ouspenskaya as the Maharani.

Actors

Myrna LoyMyrna Loy
Tyrone PowerTyrone Power
George BrentGeorge Brent
Brenda JoyceBrenda Joyce
Nigel BruceNigel Bruce
Maria OuspenskayaMaria Ouspenskaya
Mary Nash
Jane DarwellJane Darwell
Marjorie RambeauMarjorie Rambeau
Henry Travers
H B WarnerH B Warner

Oscars

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