Product Details

• Actors: Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray, Paul Fix, Josephine Hutchinson
• Directors: Robert Mulligan
• Writers: Horton Foote
• Producers: Alan J. Pakula
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: May 9, 1995
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302804590
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,657 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Item Name: Baby, the Rain Must Fall; Studio: Sony Pictures

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Steve McQueen as a singer!, May 14, 2004

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Jack Purcell (Placitas, NM USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby the Rain Must Fall [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is one I'd put up beside The Last Picture Show, A Small Town In Texas and a number of other portrayals of small town life in the US circa 1950s. The difference lies with the Remick/McQueen combo, the harmony, the tension and the incredible intensity of Steve McQueen at his absolute best.

The McQueen character here is a small-town young man from a lousy homelife, grown up, gone to prison for a brief time, poor and trying to make something of his life with his young wife, Lee Remick and their pre-school daughter, Margaret Rose. McQueen's past plays heavily against him; his hangups, pride, independence and general hard-headedness lead him into troubles with the entire town and the law enforcement community while the endearing Remick and Margaret Rose watch in tender helpless desolation.

This movie belongs on the best-seller list with all the other oldies. It's a better one than most.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remick is the heart and soul of this film, August 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby the Rain Must Fall [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Horton Foote's spare and sad drama is given deep heart and soul by the performance of Lee Remick. While Steve McQueen gives the film brawn and brashness, Remick illustrates the wonderful, small moments that make Foote's work so memorable. Remick's scenes with her young daughter -- as she shyly recalls meeting her husband at a dance and later as they suffer through the storms of McQueen's demons -- are touching, warm and finely drawn. And Remick, in her scenes with McQueen, shows the quiet strength that is so captivating in Foote's heroines. And director Mulligan is wise enough to give her talents full resonance. For the memorable combination of Lee Remick and Horton Foote, do not miss this movie.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lee Remick upstages Steve McQueen, October 25, 2000

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Thomas Kelly Perkins (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby the Rain Must Fall [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a very accurate portrait of not quite aquiring the American Dream. An often overlooked gem, this film deals with misplaced passions and how they can affect the people you love. I have to give Lee Remick the award for this one. The long-suffering wife of an ex-con (McQueen), she portrays the quentissential southern lady who is trying to be optimistic, in spite of the hand that life has dealt her. I went to school in Houston with the girl who played their daughter (Kimberly Block) and I remember when she was absent in Kindergarten to make this film. Steve does a marvelous job in making us both feel sorry for the character and being quite repulsed at his antics. But kudos have to go to Lee Remick on this one. God bless you both!