Monsoon

Nov 1, 1952

1h 19m

★ 4.0

ECSTASY...flaming into passion-swept adventure...in the most daring picture ever filmed!

Overview

A young woman named Julia brings her fiance and his mother to a village in India to meet her father and brother. Hospitality proves in short supply and things take a turn for the worse when Julia's seductive younger sister arrives.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

CFG Productions

Film Group Judd

Monsoon Trailers

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Cast

Jeanette

Ursula Thiess

Julia

Diana Douglas

Burton

George Nader

Katie

Ellen Corby

Putsi

Philip Stainton

Rault

Myron Healey

Molac

Eric Pohlmann

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