Bhowani Junction
Bhowani Junction ★★ 1956
A half-Indian, half-English woman is torn between her country and the British officer she loves in postcolonial India. Great cinematography. Based on a book by John Masters. 110m/C VHS . Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Marne Maitland, Peter Illing, Edward Chapman, Freda Jackson, Lionel Jeffries; D: George Cukor; W: Ivan Moffat; C: Frederick A. (Freddie) Young; M: Miklos Rozsa.
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