The Rainmaker | movie | 1956 | Official Trailer
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00:00 ♪ (dramatic music)
00:27 - It is going to cost you one...
00:29 quarter! 25 cents!
00:31 1/4th part of a dollar! Two bits!
00:32 Now who gets it, who gets it?
00:34 - Get him, he's a con man!
00:35 (crowd clamoring)
00:39 - It's the dazzling Broadway stage hit
00:40 that brings these two together
00:42 in their most explosive, dramatic triumph.
00:44 Burt Lancaster as the Rainmaker,
00:47 who came out of nowhere to change her love-hungry life.
00:49 - You don't even know what faith is!
00:51 Well I'm going to tell you.
00:53 It's knowing with your heart!
00:55 And I...know you're a fake!
00:58 - Catherine Hepburn as Lizzie,
01:00 who wouldn't give in without a struggle.
01:02 - I don't want to pick a man out of a horse trough!
01:05 I want him to stand on his own two legs!
01:08 And I want to stand on mine without having to trick him!
01:11 Isn't that possible with a man?
01:13 - Wendell Corey as the married shy sheriff,
01:15 and that sensational young star discovery, Earl Holloman,
01:18 as Lizzie's impulsive teenage brother.
01:21 - Who says we're inviting you over for Lizzie?
01:23 You take that back!
01:24 - I won't take nothing back, Jim.
01:25 - Then take something else!
01:28 - Hot-tempered, hot-blooded,
01:30 all of them touched by the madness of a hot night
01:32 that sends a woman off into the darkness,
01:35 and makes a man reach for his gun.
01:37 - Lizzie has got to have something!
01:40 Even if it's only one minute,
01:42 with a man talking quiet,
01:44 and his hand touching her face.
01:46 - The night when a woman discovers for the first time
01:49 the wonder and terror in a man's demanding arms.
01:52 - Now close your eyes.
01:54 Close them.
01:55 (dramatic music)
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02:18 [BLANK_AUDIO]