A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)

The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.

Director:

Guy Green

Writers:

Rachel Maddux (novel), Stirling Silliphant (written for the screen by)

Stars:

Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver

Cast

Cast overview:
Anthony Quinn	...	Will Cade
Ingrid Bergman	...	Libby Meredith
Fritz Weaver	...	Roger Meredith
Katherine Crawford	...	Ellen
Tom Holland	...	Boy (as Tom Fielding)
Virginia Gregg	...	Ann Cade
Mitchell Silberman	...	Bucky

Storyline

Libby Meredith and her husband Roger, a college professor, have a quiet, comfortable marriage. They journey to the Great Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee, where Roger will spend his sabbatical year writing a book. Their neighbor, an unhappily married mountain man falls in love with Libby at first sight. Although plagued by guilt, Libby cannot deny the sudden, overwhelming passion and exuberance she feels as a result of the mountain man's confession of love. Their brief, idyllic infatuation is interrupted by sudden violence.

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Plot Keywords:

love | professor | tennessee | season | spring | 

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Taglines:

Love happens when you least expect it. Even when it's not yours to have.

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

GP

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1970 (UK)

Also Known As:

Die Frau des Anderen

Filming Locations:

Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park - 107 Park Headquarters Road, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Pingree Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Opening credits: The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any persons is entirely coincidental and unintentional.

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Goofs

The daughter's position at the kitchen table when Ingrid Bergman hits the cup and saucer with her hand.

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Quotes

Libby Meredith: Cookies?
Ellen Meredith: Calories.
[Libby takes them away]

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Connections

Referenced in Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)

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Soundtracks

What Am I Doing Hangin Round?
Written by Michael Martin Murphey and Owens Boomer Castleman (as Owen Castleman)
Performed by The Monkees

User Reviews

Three divergent accents adrift in the Smoky Mountains...

Admirers of classic films will no doubt enjoy seeing Anthony Quinn reunited with Ingrid Bergman, his co-star from 1964's "The Visit"; they're an interesting screen match, but here, in 1970, with handyman Quinn talking in a southern drawl and matronly Bergman playing a professor's wife living on a farm in Tennessee, one cannot help but feel a sense of central dislocation. Bergman's husband (American actor Fritz Weaver) takes a year off from teaching to write a textbook, but instead stares at his typewriter, pipe firmly stuck between his teeth (his wife isn't frigid, but he is). It's no wonder then that Bergman enjoys Quinn's advances, but since they're both married--and have problems with their selfish children besides--it's hardly a December-age romance. Dreary melodrama, adapted from the book by Rachel Maddux, with clumsy exposition and even clumsier attempts to modernize an old formula. Charles Lang's cinematography is a visually jarring mix of location shots, back projection and ugly sets, while miscast Quinn is overly-friendly and solicitous (he makes the audience as uncomfortable as Ingrid's chilly spouse). While it's good to see the two stars together again, this Smoky Mountains scenario is a drag: colorlessly staged, poorly-conceived, predictable and depressing. ** from ****