The big rain
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The big rain |
| Original title | The Rains of Ranchipur |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jean Negulesco |
| script | Merle Miller |
| production | Frank Ross |
| music | Hugo Friedhofer |
| camera | Milton R. Krasner |
| cut | Dorothy Spencer |
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The great rain (Original title: The Rains of Ranchipur ) is an American romantic adventure film directed by Jean Negulesco from 1955 with Lana Turner , Richard Burton , Fred MacMurray and Joan Caulfield in the lead roles. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox based on the novel The rains came by Louis Bromfield .
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Lady Edwina and Lord Albert Esketh board the train to Ranchipur together, but are quartered in different compartments. Lord Esketh is a horse lover and wants to get the award-winning Maharani stallion into his possession. Money does not matter, because his wife brought a huge fortune into the marriage, while Lord Esketh only has his title and his attractive appearance. When he visits his wife's compartment, he tries to amuse his wife with charm and nostalgia, but the somewhat strained conversation quickly gets out of hand when it becomes clear that the two are aiming for fundamentally different travel destinations: he is London, she is Paris and the Riviera to meet up there with a colonel whom she met there last season. The facade crumbles as she insists that the Lord accompany her to the Riviera. A deeper marital crisis is thus taking shape. She has the power, the money and thus the say and she lets the Lord feel it every second. He despises his wife for her excessive selfishness and cold-heartedness and for the first time expresses it clearly. Lady Edwina and Lord Albert Esketh's marriage is nothing more than a bland, absurd arrangement.
When the train finally arrives at the station in Ranchipur the next day, they are met by Mr. Adoani, a close friend of the Maharani, and escorted to the palace. There they meet with the Highness of the palace and are warmly and princely welcomed. In Ranchipur, meanwhile, one longs for the rainy season. Heat and drought keep the country in suspense. On the following day, the stately stables are inspected together and the exquisite horse breeding of the Maharani is examined with admiration. Buying the award-winning stallion from her will be an expensive undertaking, as Her Highness is still grazing to drive up the price. Suddenly a new guest appears on the scene, an old friend who stormily greets Lady Edwina, hugs and kisses. The man introduces himself as Tom Ransome, a childhood friend of Edwina. In the evening, in honor of the guests Lady Edwina and Lord Albert Esketh, a festive dinner takes place in the palace, to which Dr. Major Rama Safti and the attractive prospective teacher Fern Simon are invited. After an urgent request from her mother, Fern Simon visits the wealthy engineer Tom Ransome, who is also notorious for not being averse to alcohol, to ask him if he would accompany her to the Maharani dinner, he agrees, he finds but pleasure in the young, open-hearted American.
When the evening dinner begins punctually with the guests, the good-looking Dr. Major Rama Safti something about the delayed birth of a child. Etiquette is friendly exchanged with the British newcomers and you go to the ballroom to attend an oriental dance performance. While Lady Edwina Dr. Rama Safti makes clear advances with her eyes, Fern Simon and Tom Ransome meet on the garden terrace of the palace. Fern, Tom bluntly asks Ransome to loan her a thousand dollars so that she can continue her studies and exams; as a teacher, she wants to repay him later. Tom, who is worried about the young lady's reputation because of his bad reputation, because Ranchipur is like a village, has to refuse in a friendly manner, but promises to help her with her studies in another way. Edwina lets Dr. Major Rama Safti show the precious picture gallery of the Maharani. Because of the love paintings, the conversation soon revolves around unrequited and unrequited love. The two soon had a clearly ambiguous conversation about love and conquering the opposite sex, but despite the clearest signals, Dr. Safti doesn't end up flirting with the married lady, he doesn't want to be turned into a toy of her loneliness. After dinner, the Maharani asked Lady Edwina to stay on for a word. When they are in private, Your Highness warns the Lady, Dr. To leave Safti alone. The ruthless reputation preceded the femme fatale and Dr. Major Rama Safti was adopted by the Maharani as a child when his parents - untouchables - were killed in a cholera epidemic. She loves him like a son of her own and since he is inexperienced in matters of the heart, she wants to protect him from Edwina, as his Highness urgently needs him as a freedom fighter for Ranchipur and also for the country of India.
A tiger killed two people near Ranchipur and although Dr. Major Rama Safti hates the hunt, if you go on safari, you can see how the necessary evil can be eliminated on site. Lady Edwina and Lord Albert Esketh accompany him on the hunt. In the evening the Lord confronts Edwina, because he has given her intentions and advances to Dr. of course have not remained hidden from him, with a last bit of self-respect he threatens to divorce and return to England. Lady Edwina leaves her husband's scene cold, as she already knows these moods and Lord Albert always came back to her ruefully in the end. When she and Dr. Safti is having dinner, she is nervous and directs the conversation to the argument she had with her husband. She confesses her loneliness to him, but the doctor does not want to be captured as a lover and sends her to her tent. On the way out, she almost stumbles upon a king cobra, which is standing up threateningly. Dr. Safti hears her scream of fear, runs outside and scares the snake away with a burning torch. When the horror and tension dissipate, Edwina falls crying into the doctor's arms, who strokes her hair, she hugs him, he kisses her.
The next day we go on a tiger hunt. Many hundreds of helpers finally chase the tiger out of the undergrowth, it runs right in front of the elephant on which Lord Albert Esketh is with the rifle at the ready. The lord shoots and hits the tiger, then dismounts to convince himself that the predator was also fatally hit, but the tiger is only wounded and pounces on the lord. Dr. Safti intervenes himself with the rifle and kills the tiger with an aimed shot, at this moment the rain pours releasing and thunderstorm-like over the country, but the lord is badly wounded and is transported back to the camp, where Edwina receives the news. She immediately falls to the side of her seriously injured husband. The doctor finally treats the lord in the palace and thus saves his life, the wounds are supposed to heal in eight to ten days, then the lord is supposed to return to England. Lord Albert Esketh considers the doctor to be a man of stature not only because of his life and confronts him with whether he loves his wife. The doctor answers this question in the affirmative, in order to protect the doctor from his wife if he wants to take Edwina with him to England, but Edwina does not want to follow her husband's wishes and prefers to stay in Ranchipur. The doctor then only comes to his patient as a doctor.
While Edwina and the doctor confess their love for each other, Fern Simon sneaks into Tom Ransome's house because she wants to run away from home. Tom, who is actually a bitter idealist and therefore drinks, no longer thinks much of running away and even Fern soon realizes that running away from problems is no solution. Tom brings Fern back to her mother before she finds her suicide note on the bed. Meanwhile, the Maharani seeks the doctor in the hospital with his patients to talk to him. She demands from him steadfastness towards Edwina. The doctor is torn between the new love and the fidelity and loyalty to his foster mother. When Edwina appears at a party held by Mr. Adoani, she has already been declared by the Maharani to be an undesirable person who is supposed to leave Ranchipur. The doctor hears about it and wants to place Edwina in the mission with the smileys as long as he arranges his medical successor in Ranchipur. Tom, who is also at the party, confronts Edwina and is not thrilled that she wants to take the doctor for herself. Just as the doctor and Tom argue about it, the earthquake begins, still cautious, but the doctor and policeman Rashid Ali Khan leave the festival to check on the patients and the infrastructure. As soon as they left the car, Edwina suffers a nervous breakdown and the earthquake unfolds its destructive force with full force.
The devastating earthquake caused buildings to collapse and crevices formed that devour whole hordes of people. Ranchipur is badly damaged when the nearby dam breaks, and the accumulated rain of the past few days falls down into the valley, causing massive flooding. The disaster is perfect. A large bridge is torn away and many people die in the raging floods. The doctor can barely save a boy, the policeman survives the inferno and they save themselves to the other bank together. Ranchipur is surrounded by the masses of water and soon transforms the valley into a large lake landscape.
Tom, who brought the ailing Edwina to his home after Mr. Adoani refused her asylum, is concerned about her health. After all, the water has not risen any further despite the persistent rain. A small boat suddenly docks at the house, it's Fern Simon, who survived the accident and is worried about Tom. He is amazed that the girl has put her life in danger because of him. Tom decides to take Edwina and then Fern to the higher mission at the other end of the valley to Mrs. Smiley, after he has to promise Fern Simon not to leave Ranchipur. Edwina, who is staying with Mrs. Smiley and struggling with a high fever, is disturbed that the doctor does not visit her, but he has his hands full looking after the injured and the sick. In the meantime, epidemics have broken out and local patient care is catastrophic. Lord Albert Esketh also survived the natural disaster and asks the doctor in a poorly prepared hospital to take care of Edwina, he too comes to the realization that he loves Edwina and does not want to lose her, but all pleading and urging is useless , The doctor cannot simply abandon hundreds of patients because of Edwina, even at the risk of losing them to death. He does what his medical and human duty dictates.
As an engineer, Tom recognizes the desperate situation of the place and finally takes heart, the water has to go first! So he takes a load of dynamite and blows up various mountains of rubble that hold up the water in Ranchipur and prevent it from flowing away. For Fern, Tom is a hero. When Edwina's condition has improved again and the bridge has also been makeshift repaired, the doctor comes to visit. When Edwina realizes that despite their serious condition he has preferred the other patients to her, she is sobered when she recognizes the enthusiasm in his voice when he talks about the opportunity to rebuild Ranchipur, it almost leaves her in despair. The next day she goes to see the Maharani, she has made a decision for herself and has declared that she will now leave Ranchipur without the doctor. Perhaps her first selfless act to love him. His best wishes are with her as she says goodbye and, together with her almost recovered husband, she leaves Ranchipur.
German synchronization
The information on the German dubbed version comes from the German dubbing files.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lady Edwina Esketh | Lana Turner | Marianne Kehlau |
| Dr. Major Rama Safti | Richard Burton | Horst Niendorf |
| Thomas "Tom" Ransome | Fred MacMurray | Heinz Dragon |
| Fern Simon | Joan Caulfield | Margot Leonard |
| Lord Albert Esketh | Michael Rennie | Arnold Marquis |
| Mrs. Simon | Gladys Hurlbut | Alice Treff |
| Mrs. Smiley | Madge Kennedy | Friedel Schuster |
| Mr. Adoani | Carlo Rizzo | Hans Hessling |
| Rashid Ali Khan | John Banner | Eduard Wandrey |
Reviews
“The intense passion between the wife of a British colonial officer and a progressive Indian doctor comes to a sensible end through the external and internal tremors of a natural disaster - earthquakes, floods. A drama of adultery that describes the strange landscape with exquisite visual art and captures the natural phenomena extremely effectively; comparatively superficial and theatrical in terms of action and presentation. "
Production notes
The production design came from Lyle R. Wheeler and Addison Hehr . The sound editing comes from Harry M. Leonard and Alfred Bruzlin . The costumes were supplied by Travilla , the buildings by Paul S. Fox and Walter M. Scott . Ben Nye and Helen Turpin were responsible for the masks and hairstyles. Ray Kellogg was in charge of the special effects. Lionel Newman took over the musical direction . The film was set in Pakistan .
Awards
- At the 1956 Academy Awards , the film received an Academy Award nomination for Twentieth Century Fox for Best Visual Effects .
Web links
- The big rain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The big rain in Cinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ The great rain. In: synchronkartei.de
- ↑ The great rain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 4, 2018 .