Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 163 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
- based on novel or book
- cave
- hindu
- doctor
- india
- mosque
- british raj
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Judy Davis
Adela Quested
Victor Banerjee
Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed
Peggy Ashcroft
Mrs. Moore
James Fox
Richard Fielding
- Alec Guinness — Professor Godbole
- Nigel Havers — Ronny Heaslop
- Richard Wilson — Mr. Turton
- Antonia Pemberton — Mrs. Turton
- Michael Culver — Major McBryde
- Art Malik — Mahmoud Ali
- Saeed Jaffrey — Hamidullah
- Clive Swift — Major Callendar
- Ann Firbank — Mrs. Callendar
- Roshan Seth — Amritrao
- Sandra Hotz — Stella
- Directed
- David Lean
- Written
- David Lean
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 338 ratings
- Studio
- EMI Films, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwyn Productions, HBO Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
