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Nacht über Indien

Originaltitel: The Rains Came
  • 1939
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 43 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,8/10
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Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, and George Brent in Nacht über Indien (1939)
Drama

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.

  • Regie
    • Clarence Brown
  • Drehbuch
    • Philip Dunne
    • Julien Josephson
    • Louis Bromfield
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Myrna Loy
    • Tyrone Power
    • George Brent
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,8/10
    2417
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Clarence Brown
    • Drehbuch
      • Philip Dunne
      • Julien Josephson
      • Louis Bromfield
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Myrna Loy
      • Tyrone Power
      • George Brent
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    • 1 Oscar gewonnen
      • 5 Gewinne & 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy
    • Lady Edwina Esketh
    Tyrone Power
    Tyrone Power
    • Major Rama Safti
    George Brent
    George Brent
    • Tom Ransome
    Brenda Joyce
    Brenda Joyce
    • Fern Simon
    Nigel Bruce
    Nigel Bruce
    • Lord Albert Esketh
    Maria Ouspenskaya
    Maria Ouspenskaya
    • Maharani
    Joseph Schildkraut
    Joseph Schildkraut
    • Mr. Bannerjee
    Mary Nash
    Mary Nash
    • Miss Mac Daid
    Jane Darwell
    Jane Darwell
    • Aunt Phoebe - Mrs. Smiley
    Marjorie Rambeau
    Marjorie Rambeau
    • Mrs. Simon
    Henry Travers
    Henry Travers
    • Rev. Homer Smiley
    H.B. Warner
    H.B. Warner
    • Maharajah
    Laura Hope Crews
    Laura Hope Crews
    • Lily Hoggett-Egburry
    William Royle
    William Royle
    • Raschid Ali Khan
    C. Montague Shaw
    C. Montague Shaw
    • General Keith
    • (as Montague Shaw)
    Harry Hayden
    • Rev. Elmer Simon
    Herbert Evans
    Herbert Evans
    • Bates
    Abner Biberman
    Abner Biberman
    • John - the Baptist
    • Regie
      • Clarence Brown
    • Drehbuch
      • Philip Dunne
      • Julien Josephson
      • Louis Bromfield
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    7planktonrules

    amazing special effects, okay story

    This movie has, for its time, amazing special effects for the flood scene. To let you know HOW amazing the effects were, in this category, THE RAINS CAME beat out GONE WITH THE WIND and its amazing burning of Atlanta! It was THAT good and worth seeing just for this segment. As for the rest of the story, it's okay--not great. It reminds me a lot of the movie JEZEBEL--completed just a year earlier. Both feature a female lead who is spoiled but who eventually prove themselves and both end up with similar fates. George Brent is excellent though it's odd to see Tyrone Power in the role of an Indian--with no trace of an Indian accent! Mr. Power does NOT do a whole lot to impress the audience with his acting range, but he looks nice in a suit. All in all, the story seems a tad familiar and pretty ordinary, but certainly not bad.
    7ksdilauri

    Golden-era film fans, check this out.

    You know there are a few Old Hollywood classics that you haven't gotten around to seeing, so remedy that by checking out this big-budget entry from its greatest year, 1939. Many fine summaries are offered here on IMDb, and you can be sure this film is made well enough that you can overlook the occasional soapy elements--good performances by the (notably non-ethnic) cast carry you through the suds.

    If for no other reason, see it for the special effects, about halfway through, that managed to snatch that year's Oscar from my (and millions of others') top 2 faves, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
    6TheLittleSongbird

    Raintree beauty

    There was quite a lot to want to see 'The Rains Came'. Beautiful source material, with Louis Bromfield's source material being a great read. Clarence Brown as director, while he was not a consistent director and not all his films were great or even good at his best he was great. The cast is a very talented one, George Brent has always been one of those take or leave actors for me but Tyrone Power did prove more than once that with the right material he could act and Myrna Loy is always watchable.

    While not a great film, and one of those films that may be easy to criticise for some, 'The Rains Came' to me was actually not bad at all and has a lot to recommend. Quite the opposite of bad really in my view, it is easy to see why some may not and do not like 'The Rains Came' but it is just as easy to see why others may like and do like it. It is easy perhaps to see why it is overlooked, considering that it was released in such an iconic year in film history.

    It is by no means a perfect film. The story is not always involving, with the Brenda Joyce subplot and role being underdeveloped, at times tedious and at times silly and there are scenes that veer on the overwrought.

    A lot of the dialogue is very soapy and talk-heavy and could have gone into a lot more depth and had more nuance. Personally found Power miscast, have made it clear many times about having nothing against him but he looks out of place, is rather bland and a few of his later scenes are overacted.

    However, Brent to me was just great and gives one of his best performances. Was not expecting him to be this noble or commanding, things he not always was and he is a good deal more relaxed than usual. Loy is class and sensuality personified, nothing melodramatic or sickly sweet here which were things considering the role she could have been. Her chemistry with Power fares a lot better and is the far more interesting of the subplots. Nigel Bruce has a ball as an unusually repellent character, never did he have a character this loathsome and he relishes it. Maria Ouspenskaya has a brave character worth identifying with and she brings scene stealing dignity to it. Most of the cast are very good actually, only Power to me didn't work.

    Clarence Brown's direction didn't bowl me over but enough of it is sensitive and forceful. Alfred Newman's score is beautiful and stirring. 'The Rains Came' is a great looking film, with exotic scenery and quite stunning photography at its best. The best thing about the film is the special effects, which are still astonishing today and unlike anything seen in any film at this point in film history. Flood special effects have possibly never been equalled.

    Overall, worth the look but didn't quite come together for me. 6/10
    secondtake

    Love, disaster, melodrama, colonial India in the rains!

    The Rains Came (1939)

    At first I thought this was a post-war movie, which would make it a post-Independence movie for India from the British. And since the story starts in 1938, the events would seem to lead to that huge turnover, told Hollywood style. That was fine with me.

    But no, and even better. Instead we have a pure drama that happens to be set in troubled India. World War II isn't even a fact for the film or the filmmakers, so the colonial feeling is quite sincere, and easy to poke a little fun at. In fact, the movie begins by making clear the snobbery of the British ruling elite, the women who want only the finest friends and the men who want only their frivolous jobs. The natives, the Indians themselves, have only a small presence, and the two Indian leaders are played by non-Indians, as was unfortunately usual for Hollywood at the time.

    The drama starts slowly, and even when Myrna Loy finally appears (and she is terrific enough to make an instant difference) the actual story still winds its slow way along. George Brent as the leading man always colors a film because he's easy going and likable to the point of calmness, which can easily become dullness. Still, he's rock steady and I like him. And Tyrone Power, who as the devastating good looks to upend things, is kept in a reserved and steady role, too, playing an Indian doctor with clearly British training. There is a fourth main character, more of a cliché of sorts but important to the story, an overly young blonde and naive girl just over eighteen who wants Brent in every way. And seems by the middle flood scenes to get him where he is best got.

    Yes, this is a love melodrama set in steamy, rainy, exotic India. As a drama it's good, though lacking some kind of drive to make it chilling or weepy or whatever might send it over the top. But there are aspects here that are really exceptional. One of them is the stunning job on the earthquake and flood scenes. Special effects being completely physical back then, it's astonishing how realistic it all is. There is some back projection, but no retouching or double exposure that I could see, and no computer graphics of course, just elaborate models and slow motion to fool you about the scale of everything. But beyond the feat of pulling it off is just the aesthetic handling of movement and space as the world crumbles, literally.

    The scenes that follow the devastation are in flood stage with continuing rain, and it's pretty good stuff. And of course there's something of a metaphor to it all, the outsiders (mostly British, but some Americans, who of course don't have quite the same classist attitudes) feel just how outside they are. There is always, for them, the possibility to just leave, and a few no doubt do, but mostly people knuckle down and help with the disaster relief. Loy has been bored and spoiled until now, and she helps at the hospital, partly to be with the searing doctor. And Brent ends up helping, too (which we expect--he's a good guy) and his young hanger-on sticks to his side, maturing quickly.

    "The English are an odd people," the Indian maharani says, and nothing is more true. There they are, these colonialists, sticking it out through really awful times, helping and and suffering equally. Yes, they have pampered lives compared to the common person there, but it's no picnic, the heat and disease and hardship. Toward the end Brent persuades Power to rise up from his sadness. You were "...born in the darkness and filth that was India. You are India. A new India!" This is a movie about rising up in general, being better, forgetting differences and also forgetting selfishness.

    The director Clarence Brown has a handful of really terrific films in his career, and this one shows why--it's subtle and beautiful and also a bit epic in its own way. It's also gorgeously filmed, from the devastation to the smallest intimacies, all under the eye of Arthur Miller, a legend in cinematography already, and with some classics to come as well. Although meant to be filmed without flashy distraction, it's handled with enormous grace and depth. It's classy and classic stuff. And the music is typically dramatic and scored to follow the action by another great, Alfred Newman.

    The chilling and beautiful opening titles that melt off each page in a dripping wash give a clue of what is to follow, with an ominousness latent throughout. Then, toward the end, after surviving catastrophe, a simple mistake, and a realization that time is short, and the drama becomes a weepy tragedy. It doesn't get any better than that!
    weneirate

    First film experience.

    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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    • Wissenswertes
      This movie was a monumental undertaking for 20th Century-Fox. Of the 100 shooting days, almost half were spent filming the man-made rain and floods, for which 33 million gallons of water were used.
    • Patzer
      Even though Rama and Lady Edwina are caught in the same thundershower on the same street, when they arrive at Mr. Das's music school, his clothes are wet while hers are incongruously dry. Also, the wet spots on Rama's clothes move to different areas from scene to scene as they move from room to room. His are wet because he walked at the edge of an awning covering the walkway, and hers are dry because she walked completely under the awning.
    • Zitate

      Lady Edwina Esketh: [Noticing a handsome Indian man at a nearby table] Who's the pale copper Apollo?

      Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Major Safti.

      Lady Edwina Esketh: Not bad - not bad at ALL.

      Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Well, don't waste your time. He's a surgeon and a scientist. Any interest he *might* have in romance is purely biological.

      Lady Edwina Esketh: You make him sound even MORE exciting.

    • Crazy Credits
      Each set of credits (except for the 20th Century-Fox logo) disintegrates after it appears, as if it were washed away by the rain falling in the background.
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      The Rains Came
      (1939) (uncredited)

      Music and Lyrics by Mack Gordon

      Written for the movie and possibly played instrumentally

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      • 29. Juli 1949 (Westdeutschland)
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      • Englisch
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      • Balboa Park - 1549 El Prado, San Diego, Kalifornien, USA
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      • Twentieth Century Fox
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