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: Suffers from Miscasting & a Muddled Plot
Summary: 3 Stars
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Although I'd heard a lot about it, I had never seen THE RAINS CAME (1939) before watching it on DVD.
Directed by Clarence Brown from Philip Dunne and Julien Josephson's adaptation of the best-selling Louis Bromfield novel, the picture won an Oscar for its Special Effects in a spectacular earthquake/flood sequence that is still the equal of anything on the screen today.
On the other hand, the film's plot is a bit muddled and, frankly, I think that two of the key players were miscast.
The main problem is that we're never really sure who this story is about. Is the central character George Brent, a hard-drinking artist who has come to India to escape the more modern world, or is it Myrna Loy, the promiscuous wife of a British Lord (Nigel Bruce)?
Because of this lack of focus, the story often wanders.
Ms. Loy is in India on a business trip with her husband when she falls for Indian doctor Tyrone Power. After the disastrous earthquake and flood strike, Loy and Brent turn their lives around to help the disaster victims.
The roles played by both Loy and Brent could have been better cast. She is not convincing as a tramp, and, though pleasant, he has never been the screen's most interesting actor. Lana Turner and Fred MacMurray, who did the roles in the 1955 remake, were much more convincing.
? Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)
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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