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A Passage to India (1984)

Directed by David Lean

Drama | Epic | History

Overview

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny’s mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

Rated PG | Length 163 minutes

Actors

Judy Davis | Victor Banerjee | Peggy Ashcroft | James Fox | Alec Guinness | Nigel Havers | Richard Wilson | Antonia Pemberton | Michael Culver | Art Malik | Saeed Jaffrey | Clive Swift | Ann Firbank | Roshan Seth | Sandra Hotz | Rashid Karapiet | H.S. Krishnamurthy | Ishaq Bux | Moti Makan | Mohammed Ashiq | Phyllis Bose | Sally Kinghorn | Paul Anil | Z.H. Khan | Ashok Mandanna | Dina Pathak | Adam Blackwood | Mellan Mitchell | Peter Hughes | Yash Agnihotri | Duncan Preston | Richard Winter-Stanbridge | Barrie Holland

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Viewing Notes

I haven’t seen this since it first came out.  I thought it was very good back then and it’s still an impressive film adaptation.  This was David Lean’s first film after a 14-year gap and his best film since LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.  It truly looks and feels like a classic Lean epic.

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