The Rains Came

A 1939 disaster drama where personal conflicts dissolve in the face of catastrophe, as a dedicated doctor and conflicted aristocrats unite against earthquake, flood, and plague in colonial India.

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.