Tyrone Power & Myrna Loy: The Rains Came (1939) 

Great trivia note. Glad I saw it before watching movie. Thanks!

Yes me too. 🇮🇪☘️🙏

Indeed - there was the possibility to award "special Oscars", and everybody thought the amazing special effects in "San Francisco" (1936) and "The Hurricane" (1937, undeservedly almost forgotten, directed by John Ford) would be awarded such an un-categorized "special Oscar", but no - much grumbling, so they decided to create the "Best Visual Effects" Oscar (or back then just called special effects, split into "sound" and "visual")),, which went to this film with its 33 million gallons of water and climactic earthquake - sort of combining the special effects of "San Francisco" and "The Hurricane".

It won an Oscar for special effects 1939

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I adore George Brent…his acting is impeccable and he’s such a handsome man. I melt every time he speaks 💕

George Brent! Wow. Myrna Loy...great movie!

Every generation have excellent actors.

Or even close.

Agree!

She was a class act on stage and off!

Tyrone power seems all but forgotten. I have always loved ehim ever since seeing him in Zorro.

@@LindaStoronsky-yk4df He tried to ditch his 'Zorro' image after the war for more-serious material ( in pictures like "The Razor's Edge) and he wasn't averse to acting on stage.

Haha 😂 👍

My father bore a close resemblance to Tyrone Power, and my mother told me that was the main reason she married him❤❤❤

One commentor said it got the first Oscar ever awarded for special effects.

Yes, this is why the movie was so realistic, truly horrifying ...

A brief synopsis would have been great for this classic

IKR! No CGI, and look what they did with their hands back then.

🩷💔🫡 Yes, she is wonderful and noble as the mother in The Mortal Storm (1940)

Tyrone was one of the most beautiful guys ever at this age. His greatest role, however, may have been as the cad in "Witness for the Prosecution," with the courage to act his age as his looks faded.

he died at age 44 in in 1958 ...@@daphnewilson7966

I think people can enhance there age if they take care of them selves Stuart granger did

A major Betty, and first class all the way.

Myrna Loy is underrated too... but she probably wouldn't disagree w you.

Don't forget Gary Cooper.

I saw it last year.

Hypo Lyxa: Thanks. The same to you! :)

What they say is absolutely true: nothing can beat black and white old Hollywood movies! Nothing! . . Black and white movies were absolutely the best!

Yes, good! and not predictable like most films made after the 1950's 😉

I kept my black and white TV and took it with me to college in the late 70's. I only went to color when it stopped working.

Can you believe i read the book 5 times in my life until now , i am 59 and in French it has almost 900 pages in tiny writing but i still keep it

He was especially good in "The Great Lie" with Bette Davis and Mary Astor.

I havent actually seen the remake but I pushed your like button automatically. Its hard to imagine a remake that could top this original. Fabulous, outstanding cinemaphotography and special effects

And my sister has an elephant chair like the one that the kids rode on. This is the first time Ive seen one on an elephant!

BHAG.. boss D. K...

If you say so but, I, personally don't like white people portraying other races. And even though I love old Hollywood , have to say that they were racists.

@@gerica82 That is technically speaking racist,because a person of color is not being considered classy enough to potraye himself on screen .But I was meant Tyrone Power did fit the role substantially,although not so in terms of skin color

@@gerica82 And which Indian movie star should have played the role here? Since there were none in 1939 your claims of "racism" are actually a call for censorship, that this educated Indian doctor shouldn't be portrayed on screen. Without "racist" Gone With the Wind, Hattie McDaniel would not have been awarded her Oscar, decades before another actor of colour would be nominated again.

@@unowen-nh9ov yeah, its me, I am the problem.

The great Maria Ouspenskaya

Who is "her highmess"?

​@@victoriap4335Me.

Right on!

Good points about the use of the love melody. For that, you have to credit composer Alfred Newman. If you probably noticed, Newman used snippets of the melody the first time Myrna Loy laid eyes on Tyrone Power, or because he took her to the room where the man was singing the ballad. Then, throughout the film, just any time you saw Loy and Power together, you heard the melody's motif, particularly at about the 1:12 mark when Newman throws in a beautiful harp solo with a closeup of Loy. Newman has always been my favorite composer from Hollywood's Golden Age, not because he had the genius of, say, Bernard Herrmann, but because of his versatility, whether he does a love story like this film or "Love is a Many Splendored Thing,'' religious epics like ''The Song of Bernadette,'' ''David and Bathsheba''or ''The Robe,'' or historical films like ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' or ''The Diary of Anne Frank.' Throw in his adaptations of many of Rodgers & Hammerstei's great musicals and his 20-year administrative duties as head of the great 20th Century-Fox music department and you have one of true giants of Hollywood

Why so hostile?

It's corny, cheesy and perpetuates myths about history, not to mention using caucasians to play Indians. It's cheapness personified! Hard to suffer through 5 minutes of this atrocity!

Really Greater movie

The book is even better! The movie left out some details too but it's a good movie nevertheless👍

You sound just like me! If I like a movie I'll watch time and time again x

@@maxinelowe6285 And....I usually discover something new and intriguing that I had missed before.

I think George Brent made every movie he was in better! Fine gentleman actor!

She was a class act both on screen and off.

Dog nosed.

nobody comes close today and before.THE ULTIMATE IMAGE OF A MALE MOVIE STAR! this film and JESSE JAMES 1939 were the two biggest hits that year making him number two at the boxoffice behind micky rooney and before clark gable.

AnneCherch: No, there isn't! :)

@@-elchoya9832 I watched the JESSE JAMES movie yesterday. Enjoyed Power and Fonda together as the James brothers. 👏👍👍

Exquisite corpse stare!!

No, it didn't cause controversy.

GRATIDÃO POR PARTILHAR UM EXCELENTE FILME COM EXCEPCIONAIS ATORES. A MINHA MÃE ERA FÃZOCA DE TYRONNE POWER. TINHA FOTO DELE NA PAREDE DA SALA DE ESTAR.

Not William Powell - It's George Brent

Except he wasn't Indian, was he🤣🤣 A little tan make up and bingo better looking than the actual thing.

En espanol se llamo "llegaron las lluvias"

So do I! :)

I remember Alice Fay had said in an interview that when you kissed Tyrone Power you went to heaven. Can't remember her exact words as it was such a long time ago. But she should know; she was his co-star in quite a few movies. Those old movies were the greatest!

@@AnneCherch : And I don't have any doubt about it. He was so lovely! And he was a talented actor, too! I agree with you. I love old movies, too, especially those of Tyrone Power! :)

Delusional. Nothing honorable about British imperialism, its theft of India's wealth and subjugation of its people.