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Bhowani Junction (film)

Bhowani Junction
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Theatrical Film Poster
Directed by George Cukor
Produced by Pandro S. Berman
Written by Sonya Levien
Ivan Moffat
Based on Bhowani Junction
by John Masters
Starring Ava Gardner
Stewart Granger
Bill Travers
Abraham Sofaer
Francis Matthews
Lionel Jeffries
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography Freddie Young
Edited by George Boemler
Frank Clarke
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • May 1, 1956 (1956-05-01) (United States)
Running time
110 minutes
Country United States
United Kingdom
Pakistan
Language English
Budget $3,637,000
Box office $4,875,000

Bhowani Junction is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1954 novel Bhowani Junction by John Masters made by MGM. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and Ivan Moffat.

The film starred Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving in the Indian Army, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a (British) Indian Army officer. It also featured Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Lionel Jeffries and (uncredited)Neelo (who went on to become one of the leading ladies of the Pakistan film industry).

The film was shot in England at MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, on the Longmoor Military Railway, and on location in Lahore, Pakistan.

India, 1947: In the final days of British rule, Victoria Jones, the daughter of an Indian mother and an English train engineer, is serving in the British Army. She returns on leave after four years to her home in Bhowani, where supporters of Mahatma Gandhi are non-violently protesting against British rule and communists, led by a revolutionary known as Davay, foment riot and sabotage.


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