Details

Release year: 1939

Storyline

In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.

Top credits

Directors

Clarence Brown

Writers

Cast

Myrna Loy — Lady Edwina Esketh
Tyrone Power — Major Rama Safti
George Brent — Tom Ransome
Brenda Joyce — Fern Simon

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Awards

1 win & 4 nominations

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Did you know

• This movie was a monumental undertaking for 20th Century-Fox. Of the 100 shooting days, almost half were spent filming the man-made rain and floods, for which 33 million gallons of water were used.

• The first movie to win an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The category was called Best Special Effects and included both sound and photographic winners for Edmund H. Hansen and Fred Sersen respectively.

• During filming in 1939, Myrna Loy had a narrow escape when her horse bolted while shooting a scene; she was nearly killed.