THE RAINMAKER
(Paramount) _ G Cert. N a poorer week I’d have been glad to write more than I can here about The Rainmaker, which I very much enjoyed, A gentle, likeable fellow who sells charms that protect against tornadoes and breaks droughts by various mumbojumbo, Burt Lancaster is wanted as a con man when he blows in on the Currys. a farming family whose worries include a drought and an apparently unmarriageable daughter. With something close to poetry he woos not only the menfolk, who are offered rain for 100 dollars, but the frustrated, edgy daughter, played by Katherine Hepburn with something of that feeling for a-girl-looking-late-for-iove that helped make Summer Madness so memorable. Other characters include -Miss Hepburn’s brothers-a stinker (Lloyd Bridges) and a likeable young fellow (Earl Holliman), with a love affair and a war for freedom on his hands. The ending is both right and happy, if not altogether what you expect. This is a film everyone should like. Joseph Anthony directed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 6
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165THE RAINMAKER New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 6
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