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The Rainmaker (1956)

Film · 1956 · 121 min · Romance · Western

It's about the magic that makes a woman beautiful when she's wanted by a man!

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!

Directed by Joseph Anthony

Starring Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman, Cameron Prud'Homme, Wallace Ford, Yvonne Lime

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In cinemas13 December 1956
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First release anywhere13 December 1956

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