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Baby the Rain Must Fall ()


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In Texas, a woman and her young daughter head down to another town where the girl's irresponsible, hotheaded and immature father has just been released from prison on parole.

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Georgette Thomas
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Henry Thomas
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Slim
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Judge Ewing
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Mrs. Ewing
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Miss Clara
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Mr. Tillman
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Mrs. Tillman
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Catherine
Kimberly Block ...
Margaret Rose
Zamah Cunningham ...
Mrs. T.V. Smith
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Counterman
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Band Member (uncredited)
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Tough Patron (uncredited)
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Tough Patron (uncredited)
Wallace Schlemmer ...
Horse Boss Guarding Prisoners (uncredited)
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Miss Kate Dawson (uncredited)
Billy Strange ...
Henry Thomas (uncredited) (singingVoice)

Directed by

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Robert Mulligan

Written by

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Horton Foote ... (play "The Travelling Lady")
 
Horton Foote ... (screenplay)

Produced by

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Steve McQueen ... executive producer (uncredited)
Alan J. Pakula ... producer

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Elmer Bernstein

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Ernest Laszlo ... director of photography

Editing by

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Aaron Stell

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Roland Anderson

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Frank Tuttle

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Ben Lane ... makeup supervisor

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Joseph E. Kenney ... assistant director (as Joseph E. Kenny)

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Lambert E. Day ... sound (as Lambert Day)
Charles J. Rice ... sound supervisor

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Albert Bettcher ... first assistant camera (uncredited)

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Ernie Sheldon ... songs: lyricist (as Ernest Sheldon)
Robert Bain ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Elmer Bernstein ... conductor (uncredited)
Jack Hayes ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Don Peake ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Leo Shuken ... orchestrator (uncredited)

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Meta Rebner ... script supervisor

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Isabel Halliburton ... assistant to producer (as Isabel M. Halliburton)
Vance Jonson ... title designer
Billy Strange ... technical advisor
Lou Dyer ... unit publicist (uncredited)
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

With her infant daughter Margaret Rose in tow, Georgette Thomas pulls up stakes from Tyler, Texas to head to Columbus, Texas to be reunited with her husband, Henry Thomas, who has just been released from prison on parole. Columbus is Henry's hometown. Margaret Rose has never met her father. Henry is not yet ready for this reunion as he is an irresponsible soul, who has problems looking after himself, let alone a wife and infant daughter. People in Columbus are doing whatever they can to help Henry, people such as Slim, the Deputy Sheriff who has known Henry since they were kids, and the Tillmans, who have given him a place to live as well as a job to do chores around their house. However, Henry is reluctant to give up songwriting and performing with his rockabilly band, the honky-tonks where he plays the environments which exacerbated his previous life problems. Henry has the unrealistic belief that he will become the next Elvis Presley. Beyond these issues, the biggest obstacle in the Thomases becoming a happy, united family may be Miss Kate Dawson, the judgmental woman who raised Henry. Miss Kate, who still acts as his unofficial voice of reason and who believes the only right path for Henry is to go back to school, believes that Henry has never made a good decision on his own. Written by Huggo

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Taglines The Explosive Story of a Born Loser See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Traveling Lady (United States)
  • Le sillage de la violence (France)
  • La última tentativa (Spain)
  • I megali apopeira (Greece)
  • Errando pelo Caminho (Portugal)
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  • 100 min
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Trivia Steve McQueen's vocals were dubbed by Billy Strange, a songwriter and musician who wrote songs for Elvis Presley and others and arranged and played guitar on records by Nancy Sinatra and the Beach Boys among others. See more »
Goofs When Henry plants the china berry tree in his front yard he neglects to take it out of the tin can first, guaranteeing that it will never grow larger, and probably strangle to death. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Advertising Rules! (2001). See more »
Soundtracks Baby, The Rain Must Fall See more »
Quotes Georgette Thomas: [woken up from Henry's banging] Henry, what's the matter?
Henry Thomas: I dreamt I was back in the pen. They told me I could leave, but I'd have to let myself out. Every time I got that door halfway open, it'd slam shut in my face. Them guards - all laughing at me.
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