OPERA HOUSE
“THE RAINS CAME” The power of one of to-day's great novels finds its full scope on the screen in Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of “The Rains Came,” the sensationally best-seller by Louis Bromfield, which is showing at the Opera House, with Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power and George Brent sharing stellar honours. These fascinating strangely-assorted humans, cut off from the world in the colourful mythical city of Ranchipur, India, with all restraint swept away, as the angry forces of Nature made life a fading hope and love a desperate longing, are brought vividly to life in
this Twentieth Century-Fox film. Faithful in mood and detail to the book, “The Rains Came" preserves all of Bromfield's characters. Myrna Loy breaks with the "perfect wife” tradition to play the amorous Lady Edwina Esketh, Tyrone Power has his most romantic role as the high-caste Hindu surgeon, Major Rama Safti, who proves the one great love of Lady Esketh’s life, and George Brent is seen as the worldly Tom Ransome, a ghost out of the lady’s romance-strewn past. Brenda Joyce, discovered following a nation-wide search, heads a brilliant supporting cast in the role of Feren Simon, the fresh, young beauty whose love gives the world-weary Ransome a new lease of life. On the supporting programme are scenes of Ajax winning the C. W. Cropper Plate, and an “Orphan Duck” cartoon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 94, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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227OPERA HOUSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 94, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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