

The Rains Came
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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- Released
- Budget
- $2.5M
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- Language
- English
- rain
- earthquake
- state of emergency
- deluge
- disaster
- doctor
- india
- flood
- plague
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- PremiereNRMansfield, Ohio8 Sept 1939
- Theatrical15 Sept 1939
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- Theatrical23 May 1947
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The Rains Came was released on 15 September 1939.
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CinemaSerf
6/22/2022
This is a classy adaptation of Lewis Bromfield's tale of the Raj. When the unhappily married "Lady Edwina" (Myrna Loy) and her rather indifferent, pompous, husband "Lord Hesketh" (Nigel Bruce) arrive in the Indian state of "Ranchipur", she meets up with her old friend "Ransome" (George Bent) who arrived many years earlier to paint the portrait of the Maharajah. Even though he's a bit of a rake, the bored "Lady Edwina…
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