The River (1951) |
||
|
|
||
The River Cast |
||
|
||
Movie Highlights |
||
Other InformationPlot SummaryDirector Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the ... (www.criterion.com/films/679) TaglineBeauty...Mystery...Delightful Humor... |
||
Full Cast and Crew |
||
Actor CreditsNon Actor Credits |
||
Snapshot |
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
Photo Gallery |
||
|
|
||
Fans |
||
|
|
||
Trivia |
||
Trivia and QuotesTrivia Esmond Knight, who plays the one-eyed Father, did actually lose his eye in the war, during the battle to sink the Bismark. He served on the Prince of Wales, and later starred as the Captain of the Prince of Wales in the film Sink the Bismarck! (1960). When Kenneth McEldowney, a successful florist and real estate agent in Los Angeles, complained to his wife, an MGM publicist, about one of her studio`s films, she dared him to do better. So he sold their home and floral shops, and from 1947 to 1951 worked to produce this film. It opened in New York to a record 34-week run at reserved-seat prices and was on several ten-best movie lists in 1951. McEldowney then returned to real estate and never made another movie. Thomas E. Breen Who plays Capt. John, was really missing one leg like his character. This film was instrumental in launching the careers of Satyajit Ray - an assistant on the film - and Subrata Mitra, who went on to become Ray`s cinematographer. Shot in Technicolor, it was necessary to use brighter lights than usual. This also required spending five months in the lab, painting up colors that weren`t rich enough. | ||
Top Contributors |
||
|
Top editors for this profile:
|
||
Related Links |
||
|
||
Featured Titles |
||
Comments
Submit a Comment