Well, the rains come, alright, and the dam breaks, and George Brent flounders around in ten feet of water, and on the whole it's one of the wettest movie-going evenings since "The Hurricane." But unlike "The Hurricane" it was a bit wet from the critical point of view, too. A cast headed by Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power has a right to expect a decent script with which to work. But 20th Century Fox let them down with the script of "The Rains Came." For instance: Brent to Loy, "It's exciting seeing you again." Loy to Brent, "May I have a cigarette?" A startling example of relevant repartee.

Perhaps expectations about this picture have run so high that the eventual product would have to be an anti-climax, no matter how good it was. It does seem, however, that there are more potentialities in the film than have been realized.