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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543208181
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 01, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 34557
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1939
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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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Rating:  - Suffers from Miscasting & a Muddled Plot
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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 ... Read More
Rating:  - a good disaster movie (& the disaster isnamed tyrone)
yet another fine movie that stops just short of greatness because of the miscasting of tyrone power, herein cast as an indian physician (and presumptive heir to a royal seat of power) caught up in a taboo love affair with an english woman of questionable morality (the always terrific myrna loy), against a flood-wracked and pestilence-ridden land. as usual in this type of movie, there are scads of good supporting performances, most notably that of maria ouspenskaya (no werewolves, sorry). it holds ... Read More
Rating: - Great spectacle, weak drama
The Rains Came is one of the less successful examples of the genius of the studio system. Part of the 30s vogue for disaster movies (San Francisco, In Old Chicago), the violence of the spectacle is truly impressive when the earthquakes and floods hit at the halfway point, but the human drama is less engaging, partially due to a plethora of weak characters that it's hard to care about in too many tired scenes that don't catch fire. Too much of the film is carried by George Brent's dissolute ex-pat ... Read More
Rating: - Sentimental - But that's really about all there is here
If you like watching a clever woman (the character of Lady Esketh) who has a self-pitying martyr complex, you may like this movie. For the most part 'The Rains Came' is just a sentimental dreary film.
I was truly hoping for something better here! But nevertheless judge for yourself - you may find something really worth while about the movie.
Rating: - Proper Disaster Drama with Cultural Oddities and a Love Story...
The Rains Came was released the same year Gone with the Wind (1939) brought a storm of viewers to the silver screen. Unlike Gone with the Wind, which received a legendary status in the cinema history, The Rains Came only made an impact in the special effects department. The special effects are rather amazing, even today many viewers will drop their jaws, as they ponder the age of the film and the fantastic catastrophe sequence in the film's midpoint. However, the film presents an experience that ... Read More
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