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The Rains Came

5.9 / 10

104 minutes

1939-09-15

English

US

Actors :

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, C. Montague Shaw

Description

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.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

5/25/2023, 8:54:16 AM

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, th...