The River (1951 film)

The River French Le Fleuve is a 1951 film directed by Jean Renoir. It was filmed in India.

Harriet played by Patricia Walters belongs to an upper middleclass English family residing on the banks of the Ganges River in India. Her father Knight runs a jute mill, and she has four sisters. Her only brother played by a very young Richard R. Foster, somewhat ten years her junior, wants to learn how to tame cobras with a flute. Although they are raised in a genteel, English setting, and even have the benefit of a livein nanny, their upbringings bear the mark of a curious confluence of Western and Eastern philosophies. If there ever could be a compromise between Christianity and Hinduism, they are immersed in it. The youngest girl, for instance, has a rabbit she treats as her newborn baby, and says that some babies can be born again and again.The tranquility of an upperclass English family lifestyle, however, takes a tumble and turns thoroughly topsy turvy when the familys neighbor invites his cousin, Captain John played by Thomas E. Breen, to live with him on his plantation. When Captain John arrives, the girls discover he has lost one leg in the war. Notwithstanding his handicap, he has such an atmosphere of charm and sophistication about him that the daughters are all understandably smitten with him and therefore invite him to a Diwali celebration, complete with a formal invitation in writing, handdelivered by the oldest daughter herself. ........

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