Passage To India, A

Based on the novel by E.M. Forster and the play by Santha Rama Rau, A Passage To India tells the story of India in the late 1920s. Adela Quested (Davis) has traveled to Chandrapore to join her fiancé (Havers), the city magistrate. She is accompanied by his mother Mrs. Moore (Ashcroft, in her Oscar®-winning performance), who is shocked at the treatment of the Indians by the British. The two women befriend Dr. Aziz (Banerjee), who, eventually, because he has overstepped his position by being gracious and friendly to them, is accused of criminal conduct stemming from a picnic outing to the Marabar caves. Composer Maurice Jarre also won an Oscar for his original score. (Laurie Sevano)