Title: The Rains Came
Date: 1939
Type: Drama
Rating: 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 Loy
Tyrone Power
George Brent
Brenda Joyce
Nigel Bruce
Maria Ouspenskaya
Mary Nash
Jane Darwell
Marjorie Rambeau
Henry Travers
H B Warner
Oscars
None