The Rainmaker
Film poster
Directed byClarence G. Badger
Screenplay byGerald Beaumont
Louis D. Lighton
Hope Loring
Produced byJesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
StarringWilliam Collier, Jr.
Georgia Hale
Ernest Torrence
Brandon Hurst
CinematographyH. Kinley Martin
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 10, 1926 (1926-05-10)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Rainmaker is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Clarence G. Badger and written by Gerald Beaumont, Louis D. Lighton, and Hope Loring. The film stars William Collier, Jr., Georgia Hale, Ernest Torrence, Brandon Hurst, Joseph J. Dowling, and Tom Wilson. The film was released on May 10, 1926, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] due to an injury received during the war, a jockey is told he will never ride again. However, the injury also allows him to know through prayer whether it will rain, the knowledge useful in his betting on horse races. His nurse Nell Wendell falls in love with him, but she is later discharged from the hospital. She becomes a dancer in a saloon owned a lifetime friend, who has refused to sell his property to a rival who believies that there is oil on the land. A plague breaks out and the rival prevents aid from coming in. The jockey prays for rain with the aid of the parish priest and it comes. Nells’s friend in his will leaves his property to the couple.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of The Rainmaker located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Hal Erickson (2015). "The-Rainmaker - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on February 7, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Rainmaker". afi.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ "New Pictures: The Rainmaker". Exhibitors Herald. Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co. 25 (2): 62. March 27, 1926. Retrieved April 18, 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Rainmaker
  5. ↑ The Rainmaker at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Lost Paramount films - 1926
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