Actor: Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Suprova Mukerjee, Thomas E. Breen Director: Jean Renoir Genre:Drama Year: 1951 Studio:Alpha Video Length:1 hours,39 minutes Released:April 21, 2015 Rating: Not Rated Format: DVD (NTSC/Region 1) Misc:Black & White Language: English Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
The gentle rhythms of the Ganges provide background noise in Renoir's low-key film about three girls suffering the pangs of adolescence in post-WWII India. Harriet (Patricia Walters), a shy, poetic girl, Valerie (Adrienne Corri), a proud beauty, and Melanie (Radha), a reserved Anglo-Indian, display a powerful interest in Captain John (Thomas E. Breen), a WWII veteran staying with a neigboring relative. But when he loses his leg in the war, he plunges into a melancholy that makes him oblivious to their attention.
Actor: Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Suprova Mukerjee, Thomas E. Breen Director: Jean Renoir Genre:Drama Year: 1951 Studio:Alpha Video Length:1 hours,39 minutes Released:April 21, 2015 Rating: Not Rated Format: DVD (NTSC/Region 1) Misc:Black & White Language: English Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
The gentle rhythms of the Ganges provide background noise in Renoir's low-key film about three girls suffering the pangs of adolescence in post-WWII India. Harriet (Patricia Walters), a shy, poetic girl, Valerie (Adrienne Corri), a proud beauty, and Melanie (Radha), a reserved Anglo-Indian, display a powerful interest in Captain John (Thomas E. Breen), a WWII veteran staying with a neigboring relative. But when he loses his leg in the war, he plunges into a melancholy that makes him oblivious to their attention.
