El viento no sabe leer

El viento no sabe leer (1958)

The Wind Cannot Read

Birmania 1942; Segunda Guerra Mundial. Michael Quinn (Dirk Bogarde) es un valiente piloto de la RAF. Después de una fallida ofensiva en Birmania, al teniente Quinn le encargan una nueva misión. Esta consiste en viajar a Delhi con el fin de recibir un curso de japonés. Sus superiores confían en que Quinn se convierta en poco tiempo en un eficaz traductor, para interrogar a los prisioneros de guerra japoneses. La escuela a la que está destinado Quinn se encuentra en Red Fort, en Vieja Delhi. El primer escollo con el que se encuentra Quinn es un alumno receloso llamado Fenwick, que pronto le hará la vida imposible.

Fecha de estreno
1958-06-10
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (13)
Duración
1 h 55 min
Géneros
Romance, Drama, Bélica
Director
Ralph Thomas

Reparto

Curiosidades

  • Rodada en: Pinewood

The Wind Cannot Read is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser. It was based on the 1946 novel by Richard Mason, who also wrote the screenplay.

Production

Filming started on 16 December 1957 at Pinewood Studios. The unit then shifted to India in January for over a month of location work. Many of the locations in India had been scouted by David Lean.

Bogarde said during filming "It's the first time I've been able to play a script without having to rewrite chunks. It is a magnificent piece of writing. Superb." During filming, John Davis of Rank pressured Box and Thomas to film an alternate, happier ending. Dirk Bogarde was upset by this and wrote an angry letter to Davis.

In January 1958 Rank announced it would be stopping four films and sacking over 300 workers in an economy measure due to an overall fall in cinema attendances. The four films in production at the studio at the time were A Night to Remember, Nor the Moon by Night, The Wind Cannot Read and Innocent Sinners which cost £1.1 million in total. Thomas announced at the time, "I am determined we are going to make this a very fine film.

Ralph Thomas recalled years later, "It was a real three-handkerchief picture, which I thoroughly enjoyed making, and Dirk was very good in it."

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