Bhowani Junction (1956)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Francis Matthews, Bill Travers
Synopsis:
India:in the months leading up to partition a police officer stumbles on a plot to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi on board a train.
Review:
The film's focus lingers for too long on the identity crisis of half-caste Victoria Jones, when we know she is Ava Gardner, at the expense of the broader picture of India's political turmoil in the late Forties.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Francis Matthews, Bill Travers
Synopsis:
India:in the months leading up to partition a police officer stumbles on a plot to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi on board a train.
Review:
The film's focus lingers for too long on the identity crisis of half-caste Victoria Jones, when we know she is Ava Gardner, at the expense of the broader picture of India's political turmoil in the late Forties.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Francis Matthews, Bill Travers
Synopsis:
India:in the months leading up to partition a police officer stumbles on a plot to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi on board a train.
Review:
The film's focus lingers for too long on the identity crisis of half-caste Victoria Jones, when we know she is Ava Gardner, at the expense of the broader picture of India's political turmoil in the late Forties.