Baby the Rain Must Fall
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| Directed by | Robert Mulligan |
| Produced by | Robert Mulligan Alan J. Pakula |
| Screenplay by | Horton Foote |
| Based on |
The Traveling Lady 1954 play by Horton Foote |
| Starring |
Lee Remick Steve McQueen |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Edited by | Aaron Stell |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,500,000 |
Baby the Rain Must Fall is a 1965 American drama film starring Lee Remick and Steve McQueen, directed by Robert Mulligan. Dramatist Horton Foote, who wrote the screenplay, based it on his play The Traveling Lady. This is Glen Campbell's film debut, in an uncredited role.
Georgette Thomas (Lee Remick) and her six-year-old daughter Margaret Rose (Kimberly Block) travel from the East Texas town of Tyler to (unknown to him) meet her husband Henry Thomas (Steve McQueen) in his small coastal prairie southeastern Texas hometown of Columbus, Texas. Henry is a somewhat irresponsible rockabilly singer/guitarist, he has recently been released from prison after serving time for stabbing a man during a drunken brawl, and wasn't thinking of Georgette at all.
Henry tries to make a home for his family (he seemed to be unaware of his daughter), but Kate Dawson (Georgia Simmons), the aging spinster who raised him after his parents died, remains a formidable presence in his life and tries to sabotage his efforts. She threatens repeatedly to have him returned to prison if he fails to acquiesce to her demands to responsibly give up singing, go to school, and get a real job. Henry resists this, and even convinces Georgette that he will be a "star" someday, as he continues playing and working a part-time job with the Tillmans. When Ms. Dawson finally dies, the evening after the funeral Henry drunkenly destroys her possessions (several shots show the belt she beat him with, untouched, hanging on a door near her bedroom), leaves with the silver willed to Catherine, then wrecks his car on the cemetery gate and desecrates her grave site.
Henry is destined for prison again, and Georgette and Margaret Rose will leave Columbus with Henry's childhood friend, the local sheriff's deputy, Slim (Don Murray). Slim has tried to help straighten Henry out, since before the arrival of Georgette and Margaret Rose to Columbus at the beginning of the movie, and failed. Slim and Georgette have clearly fallen in love together; even as Georgette does her best to love and gently comfort her self-tortured and cold husband Henry, unsuccessfully.
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