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Rain | Earthquake
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Best Effects Special Effects | 1940
Best Art Direction | 1940
Best Sound Recording | 1940
Best Film Editing | 1940
Best Music Original Score | 1940
Budget 2,500,000 USD
This movie was a monumental undertaking for 20th Century-Fox. Of the 100 shooting days, almost half were spent filming the man-made rain and floods, for which 33 million gallons of water were used.
During filming in 1939, Myrna Loy had a narrow escape when her horse bolted while shooting a scene; she was nearly killed.
The first movie to win an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The category was called Best Special Effects and included both sound and photographic winners for Edmund H. Hansen and Fred Sersen respectively.
Tyrone Power won the first "Harvard Lampoon" Worst Actor Award for his performance.
Initially budgeted at $2.5 million, an additional $100,000 was added to film a new ending, $500,000 was allotted for the sets and $500,000 for the flood and earthquake scenes. An army of 350 grips, carpenters and laborers worked for more than a month on those scenes.
"Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [Describing Ranchipur to Lady Edwina Esketh] See, in Ranchipur, the important things in life are the elemental things, such as crops, starvation, and weather. In Europe, when someone says "It looks like rain," in all probability, he's trying to make polite conversation. But here, where people die as easily as they're born, they're speaking in terms of life and death. You'll see what I mean, if you're still here when the rains come. You'll see them overnight turn the fields, the gardens and the jungles from a parched and burning desert, into a mass of green that seems to live, to writhe and to devour the walls, the trees and the houses."
"Lady Edwina Esketh: [Noticing a handsome Indian man at a nearby table] Who's the pale copper Apollo? Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Major Safti. Lady Edwina Esketh: Not bad - not bad at ALL. Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Well, don't waste your time. He's a surgeon and a scientist. Any interest he *might* have in romance is purely biological. Lady Edwina Esketh: You make him sound even MORE exciting."
