Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Writers:

Horton Foote (play)
Horton Foote (screenplay)

Release Date:

15 January 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

The more he gets into trouble, the more he gets under her skin!

Plot:

Henry Thomas is out on parole in a small Texan town and, in the evenings, he is the lead singer in a band...

Plot Keywords:

Convict | Homecoming | Songwriter | Based On Play

Cast

Steve McQueen	...	Henry Thomas
Lee Remick	...	Georgette Thomas
Don Murray	...	Deputy Sheriff Slim
Paul Fix	...	Judge Ewing
Josephine Hutchinson	...	Mrs. Ewing
Ruth White	...	Miss Clara
Charles Watts	...	Mr. Tillman
Carol Veazie	...	Mrs. Tillman
Estelle Hemsley	...	Catherine, Miss Kate Dawson's Housekeeper
Kimberly Block	...	Margaret Rose Thomas
Zamah Cunningham	...	Mrs. T.V. Smith, Old Lady on Bus
George Dunn	...	Counterman at Restaurant
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charles Horvath
Wallace Schlemmer	...	Horse Boss Guarding Prisoners
Georgia Simmons	...	Miss Kate

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 (cut) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Sweden:15 | Spain:13

Filming Locations:

Bay City, Texas, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Horton Foote was a native of Wharton, Texas, where portions of this movie were filmed. The Texas premier of "Baby the Rain Must Fall" was held in Wharton on February 4, 1965 at the now-demolished Rio Theatre.

Quotes:

Georgette Thomas: [woken up from Henry's banging] Henry, what's the matter?
Henry Thomas: I dreamt I was back in the pen.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man (2001)

Soundtrack:

Baby, The Rain Must Fall

Comentaries about the DVD edition

Last week I saw this movie in DVD. Fortunately for me, there was Spanish subtitles. I said fortunately, because the Paramount edition says that the subtitles were only in English and french, but the menu of the root offered also Japanese and Spanish, so I could see the movie better than with subtitles only in English (I am Spanish,I can read English more or less, so I need subtitles in the DVD). The film remembers very well the atmosphere of "To Kill a Mockinbird", the photography, the way in what Mulligan put the actors in front of the camera, the way they talk inside a room, and a character is listening outside.