The Rains of Ranchipur
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
| Produced by | Frank Ross |
| Written by |
Merle Miller Louis Bromfield (novel) |
| Starring |
Lana Turner Richard Burton Fred MacMurray Joan Caulfield Michael Rennie |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
| Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.9 million |
| Box office | $2.6 million (US) |
The Rains of Ranchipur is a 1955 American drama film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Frank Ross from a screenplay by Merle Miller, based on the novel The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield. The music score was by Hugo Friedhofer and the cinematography by Milton R. Krasner.
The film stars Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield and Michael Rennie with Eugenie Leontovich.
Made in color, Cinemascope, and four-track stereophonic sound, the film is a remake of the black-and-white film The Rains Came (1939), also made by Fox, directed by Clarence Brown and starring Tyrone Power and Myrna Loy. However, the 1955 film changes the novel's ending.
In India to purchase some horses, British aristocrat Lord Esketh and his wife, Edwina, come to the town of Ranchipur at the invitation of the elderly Maharani. Their marriage is an unhappy one and Lord Esketh announces his intention to return to England and begin divorce proceedings. The spoiled, insensitive Edwina scoffs at this.
She renews in Ranchipur an acquaintance with a former lover, Tom Ransome, now a dissolute alcoholic. She also meets and attempts to seduce a distinguished Hindu physician, Dr. Rama Safti, a decent man who is the elderly Maharani's personal choice to succeed her someday.
Safti at first resists, but ultimately succumbs to Edwina's charms and falls hopelessly in love with her. Lord Esketh becomes aware of this, but Safti saves him from a man-eating tiger during a safari. Safti admits his love for Edwina to Lord Esketh, who is now sympathetic toward this good man's plight.
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