The Rains of Ranchipur (Twilight Time) Plaion Based on Peter Barnes's irreverent Based on Peter Barnes's irreverent play Hardcore) comes this Cannes Palme D’Or nominated The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) based on a Louis Bromfield novel and an earlier Twentieth Century Fox hit The Rains Came (1939) is a juicy full bore melodrama directed by Fox's own master of the genre the great Jean Negulesco Starring Lana Turner as a heartless vixen who first lures then falls in love with an honorable Indian physician (Richard Burton) the film plays out against the magnificent sweep of the Indian subcontinent torn by the harsher powers of nature and lushly photographed by Milton Krasner