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Overview

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Director:
Clarence Brown
Writers:
Philip Dunne (screenplay) and
Julien Josephson (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
15 September 1939 (USA) more
Plot:
An Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 5 nominations more
User Comments:
First film experience. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Myrna Loy ... Lady Edwina Esketh

Tyrone Power ... Major Rama Safti
George Brent ... Tom Ransome
Brenda Joyce ... Fern Simon
Nigel Bruce ... Lord Albert Esketh
Maria Ouspenskaya ... Maharani
Joseph Schildkraut ... Mr. Bannerjee
Mary Nash ... Miss MacDaid
Jane Darwell ... Aunt Phoebe (Mrs. Smiley)
Marjorie Rambeau ... Mrs. Simon
Henry Travers ... Rev. Homer Smiley
H.B. Warner ... Maharajah
Laura Hope Crews ... Lily Hoggett-Egburry
William Royle ... Raschid Ali Khan
C. Montague Shaw ... General Keith (as Montague Shaw)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
103 min | 105 min (copyright length)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Canada:G (video rating) | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #5320)

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To create the flood effects, a 50,000-gallon tank of water was built on a studio soundstage. more
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Continuity: Even though Rama and Lady Edwima are caught in the same thundershower on the same street, when they arrive at Mr. Das' music school, his clothes are wet while hers are amazingly dry. Also's the wet spots on Rama's clothes migrate to different areas from scene to scene as they move from room to room in the school. more
Quotes:
Mrs. Simon: It's my last tea this season. We'll be leaving for Simla before the rains. You'll be going too, of course?
Lily Hoggett-Egburry: Naturally. No one stays in Ranchipur during the monsoon.
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: No? Only about five million people.
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Featured in Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000) (V) more
Soundtrack:
God Save the King! more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
First film experience., 24 February 2006
Author: weneirate from United States

I was eight years old when I saw this movie. It was the first movie I remember seeing. My mother says that initially I refused to go into the movie theater because it was a dark, and to me, forbidding place. Once inside, however, I didn't want to leave. I have never seen the movie since, but the images of flooding and sick people under mosquito nets are as vivid to me as if I had seen it yesterday. I also have memories of being put through an emotional wringer by the film, thinking it was "real" and crying at the death and destruction it portrayed. The total effect was to hook me on movies for good and I could hardly wait to get back into that dark, engrossing place.

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