The Rains of Ranchipur

1955

Action / Adventure / Drama / Music / Mystery / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1219 1.2K

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Plot summary

India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.

Director

Jean Negulesco Photo
Jean Negulesco

Top cast

Lou Krugman Photo
Lou Krugman as Courier
Michael Rennie Photo
Michael Rennie as Lord Albert Esketh
King Calder Photo
King Calder as Mr. Smiley
Joan Caulfield Photo
Joan Caulfield as Fern Simon
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955.76 MB
1280*506
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
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1.92 GB
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English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JuguAbraham 7 / 10

Remarkable special effects of an earthquake and resulting flood

A quaint film. shot in Pakistan about events in India. Ranchipur is a fictional kingdom of undivided India, Richard Burton plays a brown skinned South Asian. He does a fairly good job except when he speaks Urdu/Hindi to the native patients and servants.The main actors played the roles in Hollywood not in Pakistan. The earthquake and street scenes are very realistic for a 1955 film. It certainly deserved the Special Effects Oscar nomination it bagged.. There was an earlier 1930 version of the film scripted by Philip Dunne, where the Lana Turner character dies. That decision to remove the death from the script of the later Negulesco version definitely weakened it as it reiterates the Lana Turner character Edwina as woman who had affairs and dropped them in due course. Had that change not been made the film would have been remarkable. Even the cobra in the film is a real one, not a prop.As an Indian, I admired the performance of Eugenie Leontovich as the Maharani as she spoke like an Indian maharani would despite her awful wig.This is one of the rare films of the Fifties showing inter-racial relationships.
Reviewed by NewEnglandPat 6 / 10

Lana Turner, Richard Burton and great special effects

This wide-screen romance yarn showcases the lovely Lana Turner as a wealthy and restless socialite who becomes smitten with a handsome native doctor during a trip to India. This is the main thread of the film although there are other sub-plots at work here. Richard Burton is good as the object of Turner's affections and Eugenie Leontovich is regal as the Maharani who raised Burton from childhood. This sage queen watches the blossoming romance with cold displeasure, deeply jealous of Turner's hold on him. Fred MacMurray is involved in another clincher with Joan Caulfield that doesn't ring true and adds very little to the main story. Michael Rennie has a thankless role as Turner's husband, whom she keeps at arms's length throughout the movie. The ensuing monsoons, flooding and earthquake in the region are awesome and terrible in their destruction, the special effects of which are very good. Turner is clothed in a first-class wardrobe and the film's sets reflect the lavish production. Milton Krasner's camera and Hugo Friedhofer's exotic music score are first-rate.
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