Bhowani Junction (film)

Bhowani Junction
Theatrical film poster
Directed byGeorge Cukor
Written bySonya Levien
Ivan Moffat
Based onBhowani Junction
1954 novel
by John Masters
Produced byPandro S. Berman
StarringAva Gardner
Stewart Granger
Bill Travers
Abraham Sofaer
Francis Matthews
Lionel Jeffries
CinematographyFreddie Young
Edited byGeorge Boemler
Frank Clarke
Music byMiklós Rózsa
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • 29 October 1956 (1956-10-29) (UK)
  • 1 May 1956 (1956-05-01) (USA)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,637,000[1]
Box office$4,875,000[1]

Bhowani Junction is a 1956 British adventure drama film of the 1954 novel Bhowani Junction by John Masters. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and Ivan Moffat.

The film stars Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving in the Indian Army, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a British Indian Army officer. It also features Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, and Lionel Jeffries.

The film was shot in England at MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, on the Longmoor Military Railway,[2] and on location in Lahore, Pakistan.

  1. ^ a b 'The Eddie Mannix Ledger’, Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles
  2. ^ Ronald, D. W.; Carter, R. J. (1974). The Longmoor Military Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 168. ISBN 0-7153-6357-3.