Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

Interesting facts

• Based on: The Travelling Lady

Baby the Rain Must Fall is a 1965 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Lee Remick, Steve McQueen and Don Murray. Dramatist Horton Foote, who wrote the screenplay, based it on his 1954 play The Traveling Lady. This is Glen Campbell's film debut, in an uncredited role.

Production

The film was shot on location in the Texas cities of Columbus, Bay City, Wharton and Lockhart, and a scene in which Lee Remick works at a hamburger joint was filmed at the Baskin-Robbins ice cream store in Tarzana, California.

Many of the scenes were filmed in Columbus (the movie's actual locale), including those of the Colorado County Courthouse, the downtown store and bus shots (to the west of the Courthouse, on Milam St.), the Tillman's house (a block away from the Courthouse), and those of the Columbus Cemetery.

The last part of the "goodbye" scene, in which Henry leaves behind deputy Slim, the sheriff, Georgette and Margaret Rose, and takes off running, trips, then grabs onto the back of a flatbed truck, falls to the road and is captured by Slim, was filmed in Wharton at the southern end of Texas Farm to Market Road 102, (FM-102).

The title song, with music composed by Elmer Bernstein and lyrics written by Ernie Sheldon, was performed by Glenn Yarbrough during the opening credits. Yarbrough's recording reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Easy Listening chart. An instrumental version of the title song is used on some versions of film.

In one scene in which McQueen sings at a bar with his rockabilly band, one of his bandmates (to Henry's right) is singer-songwriter Glen Campbell, who is extremely visible standing behind McQueen in a close two-shot but is uncredited in the film. The band drummer, also uncredited, is fellow session musician Hal Blaine, both members at that time of the famed Los Angeles-based "Wrecking Crew".

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