The Rains Came
by Clarence Brown
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Actor: Brenda Joyce, George Brent, Myrna Loy, Nigel Bruce, Tyrone PowerDirector: Clarence Brown
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Rains Came
Movie Review: Get Your Umbrella!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
THE RAINS CAME (1939) was 20th Century Fox's entry into the disaster genre of the 1930s'. It features a all-star cast taken from the top studios lead by Tyrone Power (FOX), Myrna Loy (MGM), George Brent (WB) as well as a host of character actors. All contributed to this drama in a professional manner, but the real star is the Special Visual Effects.
FRED SERSEN head of the Visual Effects department at FOX was one of the best in the business. He was able to get the most out of the technology of the time too effectively integrate full sized sets, miniatures and traveling mattes. Rightly he (& Edmund H. Hansen) won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. This going against some heavy weight competition including GONE WITH THE WIND (1939).
The film was remade in 1955 as THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR. Even with the advantages of CinemaScope and color it did not eclipse the original. Which also kept truer to the book. So if your going to make a choice go with the original.
Summary of The Rains Came
In the town of Ranchipur, four people find their lives become entwined by unexpected feelings and events they cannot control. Tom Ransome (George Brent), son of an English earl, is living a painter's life. He is pursed by Brenda Joyce, a flirtatious young English girl who adores him. Lady Esketh (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful bored sophisticated and Tom's former girlfriend. And Major Rama (Tyrone Power) is the dedicated Hindu surgeon who captures her heart. When a catastrophic earthquake and flood bring disaster to India, all their lives are forever transformed by the striking clash between good and evil, duty and forbidden love.A trio of great performances and Academy Award-winning special effects recommend this saga of sin, scandal, and redemption based on Louis Bromfield's novel. George Brent stars as Tom Ransome, the reputation-tarnished son of an English earl who has found refuge from the world's ills in Ranchupur, India. Myrna Loy, cast against type, costars as his former lover, now the Lady Edwina Esketh, whose elderly husband (Nigel "Dr. Watson" Bruce) is more interested in the Maharaja's horses and money than her. "Dying of galloping boredom," she sets her sights on Major Rama Safti (Tyrone Power), a dedicated and selfless doctor, but nature calls with a devastating earthquake and flood that will open her jaded eyes. Drenched with atmosphere, The Rains Came further benefits from such venerable character actors as Maria Ouspenskaya (The Wolf Man) as the Maharani, Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath) as Tom's missionary aunt, and Henry Travers (Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life) as his uncle. The Rains Came was released in 1939, considered by some to be the movies' best-ever year. While it is not in the same class as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, or Stagecoach, this is a stellar example of old-school Hollywood. --Donald Liebenson
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