The Rainmaker
by Joseph Anthony
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Earl Holliman, Katharine Hepburn, Lloyd Bridges, Wendell CoreyDirector: Joseph Anthony
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Charles Lang
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Paul Nathan
Writer: N. Richard Nash
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
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Movie Review: The Rainmaker
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this movie because it is one of my all time favorites dating back to the days when Hollywood really had STARS. No high school dancing, no changing into super heroes, a story line easy to follow and a happy ending for one and all.
Summary of The Rainmaker
In THE RAINMAKER, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck. Katharine Hepburn garnered an Oscar nomination as the "believably plain yet magnetically beautiful" tomboy rancher, with Burt Lancaster brilliantly cast in the role of the smooth-talking con man.This 1950s classic is based on the N. Richard Nash play of the same name (and not to be confused with the John Grisham novel and subsequent film). It's drought time in the Southwest; things are so bad that when a con man (Burt Lancaster) comes to town promising he can make rain, a rancher takes him up on it. But the rancher's spinster daughter (Katharine Hepburn) is skeptical--until Lancaster makes lightning strike her heart, with the unexpected consequence of the rainmaker falling in love with her. Lancaster is charismatic and funny and finds his match in Hepburn (with Earl Holliman providing comic relief as her impulsive younger brother). Think Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian on a farm, minus the music (though Rainmaker later was made into the Broadway musical 110 in the Shade). --Marshall Fine
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