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The Rainmaker(Movie, 1956)

2h 1min | Genres: Romance / Love, Western
The RainmakerRating: 3.3/5 (with 1919 votes)
The Rainmaker is a 1956 American western romance film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his 1954 play The Rainmaker. The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain. It stars Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman. Holliman won a Golden Globe Award for his performance. The Rainmaker has been remade twice: the first time as a television film of the same name in 1982 directed by John Frankenheimer; the second time in Hindi as Thodasa Roomani Ho Jayen in 1990. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Rainmaker

Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

About The Rainmaker

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Kansas
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 11 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date GR: 12/13/1956
Director: Joseph Anthony
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Screenwriter: N. Richard Nash
Film Editor: Warren Low
Director of Photography: Charles Lang
Composer: Alex North
Costume designer: Edith Head
Production Designer: Hal Pereira
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Le faiseur de pluie"
"Il mago della pioggia"

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Other movies with this title: The Rainmaker (US, 1926), The Rainmaker (XG/DE, 1976), The Rainmaker (US, 1982), The Rainmaker (US, 1997), The Rainmaker (ID, 2004)

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