Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

6.2/10   

Regisseur:

Robert Mulligan

Drehbuchautoren:

Horton Foote (play)
Horton Foote (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

15. Januar 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

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

Nutzerkommentare:

Underrated Horton Foote Beauty

Besetzung

Lee Remick	...	Georgette Thomas
Steve McQueen	...	Henry 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
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Charles Horvath
Wallace Schlemmer	...	Horse Boss Guarding Prisoners
Georgia Simmons	...	Miss Kate

Alternativ:

Lady und der Tramp, Die (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

100 Min

Land:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

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

Drehorte:

Bay City, Texas, USA

Firma:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Dialogzitate:

Henry Thomas: [yelling a couple feet away from Miss Kates bedroom door] I'M NOT GOING TO QUITE MY MUSIC! YOU HEAR THAT OLD LADY?... I'm not going to quite MUSIC!

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001) (V)

Soundtrack:

Baby, The Rain Must Fall

Underrated Horton Foote Beauty

I just saw this hauntingly beautiful film last night on AMC. It's subtle beauty requires viewers' attention and participation. Do not watch it if you're in the mood for an easy escape film. To appreciate it you must be sensitive to facial expression and non-verbal signal. It also helps to understand a little about the culture of the South.

It works on two levels, at least:

First, it tells the story of a wife's dawning understanding of the hopelessness of her marriage and her resolve to have a good life anyway.

Second, it shows the tragedy of severe child abuse in great depth and reveals the community's culpability. I've never seen a more powerful visual metaphor than Henry's escape attempt, where camera facing him head-on, he runs furiously, climbing and clinging and failing to make it onto the back of a speeding truck.

The film juxtaposes Henry's relationship to his adopted mother to the relationship of his wife to their daughter. This loving, beautiful relationship is the pivot around which the story revolves. Henry, dull, unintelligent, abused Henry is lost, but in one area he had supreme luck (or supreme judgment). His child has what he never had, and will grow up beautifully. He could not have chosen a better mother for his daughter.

The screenplay, acting and direction are all superb.