The River

Jean Renoir's first film in color, THE RIVER is an extraordinarily rich and almost therapeutically heartening movie about an English family living in Bengal. Part coming-of-age story, part empathetic travelogue, part philosophic poem, THE RIVER was cited by Renoir as "one film that corresponds almost exactly to my initial concept of it."

Harriet (Patricia Walters), a bright and sensitive adolescent, lives with her large family in a big house overlooking the Ganges River. One day, a handsome young American named Captain John (Thomas E. Breen) arrives at the home of his cousin, Mr. John (Arthur Shields), a widower who lives next door to Harriet's family. A somewh...