
Now, Voyager(1942)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.


“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!

Burt Lancaster
Bill Starbuck

Katharine Hepburn
Lizzie Curry

Wendell Corey
Deputy Sheriff J.S. File

Lloyd Bridges
Noah Curry

Earl Holliman
Jim Curry

Cameron Prud'Homme
H.C. Curry

Wallace Ford
Sheriff Howard Thomas

Yvonne Lime
Snookie Maguire

Jack Kenny
Townsman (uncredited)

Tex Driscoll
Townsman (uncredited)
The Rainmaker is a romance, western film released in 1956 exploring themes of con man, unrequited love, stranger, drought, spinster, pray for rain. Directed by Joseph Anthony, it stars Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey. 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!
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