Steve McQueen ... Henry Thomas
Lee Remick ... Georgette Thomas
Don Murray ... Deputy Sheriff Slim
Paul Fix ... Judge Ewing
Josephine Hutchinson ... Mrs. Ewing
Horton Foote wrote this. The two films 'Baby The Rain Must Fall' and 'Tender Mercies' I had always thought of together for many years, because they are so similar. I knew Foote had written 'Tender Mercies' but it was many years later before I realized he had written 'Baby The Rain Must Fall' too. The are both stories of country singers, down on their luck at the time, and in relationships. Both movies are slow-paced, moody, and character driven dramas.
Henry Thomas has just been released from prison, and returns to his wife and daughter. There's a sense of despair here among all the characters, and we are easily able to identify with them and their feelings of hopelessness. By the end of the film we feel as if we know them, and we want to reach out to them to tell them that eventually everything is going to be okay. Foote excels at being able to create such realistic characters and place them in such a situation that we can believe it may be a true story. We know Georgette is like us in many ways, and don't ever question the lack of glamour in Remick's role. In McQueen's case, one of the reasons he is able to pull off his role so well is that he himself waas a rather wayward youth.
This is one of McQueen's least recognized and most forgotten films. Robert Mulligan made 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in 1962. The following year he teamed up with McQueen to make 'Love with the Proper Stranger' ( If anyone has it, please post it! ). Two years later they joined forces again to make this wonderful film, which I think is one of McQueen's finest. Sometimes the anti-hero is more interesting than the hero.
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