Bhowani Junction
Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 23, 2009
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ava Gardner | |
Performer: | Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Marne Maitland, Peter Illing, Freda Jackson & Edward Chapman | |
Directed by | George Cukor | |
Edited by | George Boemler & Frank Clark | |
Screenwriting by | Sonya Levien & Ivan Moffat | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
Cinematography by | Freddie Young | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
Entertainment Reviews:
... a Hollywood drama with an old-fashioned sense of storytelling and a modern (for the time) approach to colonialism, bigotry and identity.
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Seanax.com
Rating: B- --
Ava Gardner gives one of her strongest performances as an Anglo-Indian woman in love with three men, but despite on-location shooting, pressures from the censors diluted the sexual and racial tensions.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...[With] vintage Hollywood glamour....Cukor began to prove himself a master of color and CinemaScope...
USA Today
A powerful romantic drama - and look at nonviolent protest in India.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: B+ --
The film had an intimacy about it even as it was epic in scope, something that rarely happens in political films.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Description by OLDIES.com:
Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for independence from Britain, the film begins with Ava returning to her native land after spending several years in England. Her true loyalties, and her own sense of who she really is, are put to the test by the two men in her life: Stewart Granger, whose job it is to prevent saboteurs from destroying the trains at Bhowani Junction, and Bill Travers, another half-caste. When she kills a potential rapist in self-defense, Ava is given comfort by Communist insurrectionist Peter Illing, further dividing her fidelities. A climactic attempt on the life of Mahatma Gandhi provides a rousing finish to thisromantic melodrama. Bhowani Junction was adapted from the novel by John Masters.
Product Description:
An action packed romantic adventure, BHOWANI JUNCTION is an adaptation of the John Masters novel. This period film is a drama of chaos and revolt in which a young Anglo-Indian woman is forced to choose between her two races and twin allegiances when they are reflected in the men she loves. Ava Gardner plays Victoria Jones, a beautiful, half-caste young woman who returns to her homeland of India after World War II. She finds the country in a state of chaos, with the British military still occupying the land and Indians rioting to protest the foreigners' presence. When Victoria meets British colonel Rodney Savage (Stewart Granger), who is in charge of troops at Bhowani Junction; he promptly falls in love with her, however, she is in love with Patrick Taylor (Bill Travers), the Anglo-Indian rail superintendent. The film, which was shot on location (mostly in Pakistan) in CinemaScope, boasts a number of impressive, beautifully photographed sequences.
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- Sales Rank: 14,752
- UPC: 883316125922
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