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Bhowani Junction

"M-G-M's Drama Aflame With Love And Revolt!"

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Top Cast

  • Ava Gardner

    Ava Gardner

    Victoria Jones

  • Stewart Granger

    Stewart Granger

    Col. Rodney Savage

  • Bill Travers

    Bill Travers

    Patrick Taylor

  • Abraham Sofaer

    Abraham Sofaer

    Surabhai

  • Francis Matthews

    Francis Matthews

    Ranjit Kasel

  • Alan Tilvern

    Alan Tilvern

    Ted Dunphy

  • Marne Maitland

    Marne Maitland

    Govindaswami

  • Peter Illing

    Peter Illing

    Ghanshyam

  • Freda Jackson

    Freda Jackson

    The Sandani

Overview

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Rating

6.1 / 10
38 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • Wuchak
    Wuchak
    6 May 30, 2022

    **_An Anglo-Indian woman (Ava Gardner) is caught between India and England_** During the chaotic final days of British rule in northwest India in 1947, the beautiful daughter (Gardner) of an English train engineer and an Indian mother struggles to find her identity while pursued by three men: a rail-traffic superintendent (Bill Travers), his Sikh subordinate (Francis Matthews) and a British colonel (Stewart Granger). Meanwhile Indian supporters of Mahatma Gandhi campaign for independence while Communists, led by a revolutionary called Davay (Peter Illing), fuel unrest. “Bhowani Junction” (1956) is an exotic drama with adventure elements similar to the future "A Passage to India" (1985), although not as good as that one. It features most of the elements you’d think of when India comes to mind — never-ending throngs of people in (usually) white garb, trains, street commotion, etc. Ava is beautiful, Granger makes for a stalwart male protagonist, the locations are authentic and the historical setting is interesting. But I rolled my eyes at the subplot regarding a certain person feeling guilty about something, which didn’t make sense since what that person did was in self-defense and the perpetrator was an ignoble scumbag. The movie runs 1 hour, 50 minutes, and was shot in Lahore, Pakistan, which is just across the border from northwestern India; the train wreck sequence was done 35 miles outside London to the southwest; another sequence was shot at Tram Tunnel, Kingsway, London, while studio stuff was done at the MGM British Studios just north of the city. GRADE: B-/C+

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