The Rainmaker
by Joseph Anthony
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Earl Holliman, Katharine Hepburn, Lloyd Bridges, Wendell CoreyDirector: Joseph Anthony
Brand: LANCASTER,BURT
Cinematographer: Charles Lang
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Paul Nathan
Writer: N. Richard Nash
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, 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
DVD Reviews of The Rainmaker
DVD Review: A Greek Tragedy with a happy ending.
Summary: 5 Stars
Behold "The Rainmaker" with Katherine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster. As in a fairy tale, a magician (or snake-oil salesman) arrives in a town beset by drought and encounters a family suffering from an emotional drought. He restores vitality all around by asserting that hope and vitality are the true nature and condition of life.
"The Rainmaker" is another "stagey" film. Oddly, a Western with automobiles and telephones, it also has Starbuck--a fast-talking con-man who travels from town to town sensing what the populace needs like a dowser searching for water, escaping the law before they realize he hasn't delivered it. He encounters a town that was "The most prosperous around (until the drought hit.") Sizing up the situation, he quickly a finds a family suffering from an emotional drought. The Father's spiritual leadership has been supplanted by his eldest son's heartless commom-sense practicality that is crushing his rambunctious kid-brother and his "plain" spinster-sister.
Starbuck's arrival disrupts the family and creates an uproar. Kid brother and plain sister revolt, father re-asserts his moral authority, the deputy sherrif (sister's reluctant suitor) breaks the confines of his emotional cocoon (another drought image?) vitality is inevitably returned to the people and their plagued world, and Starbuck himself finds that thing within himself that he's always been looking for. A Helluva 24 hours on a ranch in the early 1900's.
It plays like an opera: dramatic, funny, poigniant, and wise. And it's a Greek tragedy: pestilence and plague, the decline of a monarch, rebelion amongst the family, a young soldier forced to take a bold stand--and, of course, Starbuck-- a wizard, a god, a force of nature reminding the world and its inhabitants where and who they are.
Description of The Rainmaker
A con-man trying to sell rainmaking powers to drought-stricken ranchers falls in love with a lonely ranch girl.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-JUL-2005
Media Type: DVD
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