Thunder in the East

During the upheavals following India's independence in 1947, American arms trafficker Alan Ladd turns up in Kandahar to sell arms to pacifist Ieader Charles Boyer, who doesn't want them. In between times, Ladd falls for Deborah Kerr, the blind daughter of a lovable English missionary. Lavish production values and a grade-A cast are powerless to rescue a mind-numbingly wordy script that drains the film of any possible excitement or real drama, leaving only boredom - ours - in place.