Thunder in the East

Based on a novel by Alan Moorhead set just after partition in the fictitious Indian state of Ghandahar. Despite the low ratings this film has received - and the fact that Paramount shelved it for nearly three years before they finally got round to releasing it - it's actually not too bad.

As usual Alan Ladd is obliged to play a two-fisted adventurer when he did introspection better, and the early appearance of Charles Boyer in blackface doesn't bode well. But it's nicely moody and downbeat and Deborah Kerr is as usual radiant. (Without giving too much away, the scene where she slaps a man's face and promptly walks straight into a door is probably the film's most memorable moment.)