In India, a colonial (George Brent) finds his gold digging former lover (Myrna Loy) has married to a wealthy older man (Nigel Bruce) who has bought a peerage, but she is in turn attracted to the future Mahrajah (Tyrone Power). When the monsoon rains come all their lives are changed forever.
Based off a novel by Louis Bromfield, this Hollywood adaptation is a little more sensitive to colonial India than many other films of the same period, demonstrating the structures at play between the Indians and the British colonials. It has elements of a disaster film about it too with the effects of the typhoon and the subsequent cholera. It is also an exotic romancer, all finely directed and produced by Harry Joe Brown with a good deal of style. Of course there is a western actor playing the central Indian role.
The film was remade in 1955 as THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR, although the ending is very different and reflects post independent India.
Based off a novel by Louis Bromfield, this Hollywood adaptation is a little more sensitive to colonial India than many other films of the same period, demonstrating the structures at play between the Indians and the British colonials. It has elements of a disaster film about it too with the effects of the typhoon and the subsequent cholera. It is also an exotic romancer, all finely directed and produced by Harry Joe Brown with a good deal of style. Of course there is a western actor playing the central Indian role.
The film was remade in 1955 as THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR, although the ending is very different and reflects post independent India.