I find it difficult to believe that no one has of yet commented on this film. I saw it for the first time last night. Wonderful!
I especially loved Loy's perfomance as Lady Esketh.
Any comments.
Myrna Loy is goddess. And someone should have given Lal Chand Mehra an award (or at least CREDIT) for that ravishing love song. His name in the film was Rajmi Singh. I will fix it.
shareYes, I agree...this is a wonderful movie that I did not know about until recently. I think that people do not know about the film but it is well worth watching. I LOVE Maria Ouspenskaya...I read on imdb that she had an acting school and her a couple of HER STUDENTS were John Garfield and Lee Strasberg...now, how cool is that???
shareI agree - it's a wonderful old film, well worth watching. The special effects are impressive!! Tyrone Power is so handsome - WOW.
shareI'm one of the many who love Myrna Loy in just about anything. She's remembered so strongly as "the perfect wife", it was nice seeing her play the worldly woman here. The death scene was very touching, to me, hearing Ty Power whispering of all the lovely places they would visit together, as Myrna silently slips away. In her autobiography. "Being And Becoming" (which is wonderful), Myrna said that she agreed with the director of this film that her character dying with her eyes open was a nice touch. But she said acting it out was very difficult. She also said she was sad to report that she and Ty were never lovers. LOL!
shareI read somewhere she resented his wife Annabella, due to her crush on Tyrone.
shareI am sure glad the old dude, Lord Esketh got his just reward. I would have slapped the snot out of him.
shareMovie girl - In my top ten! I just love the romance growing between Lady Esketh and Rama Safti. First, he translates a love song being sung nearby, and Lady Esketh thinks he failed to notice her. She had done everything but throw herself at him. He tells her he had noticed her. The romance is just beautiful as she proves her worth assisting (and risking her life) during the disaster. A wonderfully fine film. Loy and Power were magnificent! Also Maria Ouspenskaya was wonderful as the Maharani. Always great to see George Brent and Brenda Joyce. (This surpasses The Rains of Ranchipur made in the 50's, though well-acted too).
shareMovie girl: Great film! I saw it growing up in the 60's on tV and never forgot it!
shareS P O I L E R !
I reckon Lady Edwina comes across as rather slutty in her first scene.
She perves at pretty Tyrone across the room and asks Who's the pale copper Apollo? and decides he's Not bad - not bad at ALL.
But she unfortunately dies before she's able to have her adulterous ways with the pretty man.
Movie girl: Yeah, but it is a beautiful love. AS she lies there sadly with her hands up outside the bedclothes (like a symbol of sadness and defenseless) we know that she is feeling a brief and superb happiness that Rama returns her love. She cannot fight against the fact that she is dying, though, but loves him all the same.
Ironically, Lord Esketh dies in the terrible tidalwave. He is consistently mean to his valet.
Anyway, I did think that Edwina had flings now and then but never the right man. And then to meet the wonderful Rama who cares so much for others in his native land and comes to love her too. (Well, she did marry for money, and found very little love and affection in her marriage. Though untrue to her husband, she can't resist loving this other new man with a real love).
I really love this film with its romance and atmospheric settings and great special effects and the cast! Sorry to say that I did not like the remake, The Rains of Ranchipur. THough i like Richard Burton and Lana Turner, (and it was in Technicolor) I cannot equate the beautiful love and romance on the same scale as the ealrier film. Both Tyrone Power and Myrna Loy are forever in my book as great romantic actor/actress which they were in many films.