The Rainmaker (1957) Format:DVD

The Rainmaker (1957) Format:DVDUnder the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood. Katharine Hepburn garnered an Oscar nomination* as the "believably plain yet magnificently beautiful" tomboy rancher, with Burt Lancaster brilliantly cast in the role of the smooth talking con man who sells his rainmaking "powers" to unsuspecting, drought ridden Western towns. Playwright N. Richard Nash meticulously enlarges his hit Broadway play

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the Pilot noticed a group of medical personnel

Then each imagines expressing physical passion to the other

they are left questioning if lifea s better apart

the details of their lives and deaths remain fragmentary

including the gangster himself

The dance sequences between Astaire and Hayworth are marvelous and the score earned an Oscar nomination

Live audiences

he discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend

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Ron is up to his eyeballs in strange little Diablo Devil toys when his favorite food joint

could have consequences for the entire world