The Rainmaker (1956)

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The Rainmaker

“If you had a story set during the Great Depression in a sleepy, dusty little town suitable for the conning by a charlatan and the spinster daughter ripe for a sexual awakening by the same, who would you cast in those roles? Well, if we’re talking about the studio era of films, then the answers would clearly be Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. Lancaster was most potent when his athleticism and panther-like carnality were funneled into charismatic snakes, and Hepburn did a string of spinster roles throughout the 50s that she became nearly synonymous with these parts.   The Rainmaker is one of numerous stage play transposed to the big screen with a mere substitution of players. Gone are the stage veterans and in their place an assembly of movie stars and character types. Director Jo” read more

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