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The Rainmaker

6.7 121 mins Romance   Western   1956
Hal Wallis Productions   Paramount Pictures  
Director(s): Joseph Anthony

Release Date: 13 Thu, Dec 1956

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!

Casts of The Rainmaker

Burt Lancaster

as Bill Starbuck

Katharine Hepburn

as Lizzie Curry

Wendell Corey

as Deputy Sheriff J.S. File

Lloyd Bridges

as Noah Curry

Earl Holliman

as Jim Curry

Cameron Prud'Homme

as H.C. Curry

Wallace Ford

as Sheriff Howard Thomas

Yvonne Lime

as Snookie Maguire

Jack Kenny

as Townsman (uncredited)

Tex Driscoll

as Townsman (uncredited)

Frank Mills

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

Kansas Moehring

as Townsman (uncredited)

Joe Ploski

as Townsman (uncredited)

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