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Current & Choice The Rainmaker. Forecast: sunny comedy, with spells of metaphysical drizzle (Burt Lancaster), occasional electric storms (Katharine Hepburn), romantic sunset (TIME, Dec. 31).
3) Trapeze (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists): $7,500,000
The "best" actors of 1956 were not mentioned in the Motion Picture Herald's poll to determine the year's biggest box-office draws. Herald's top-ten ratings, including only two actresses and reflecting the opinions of some 16,000 theater owners in the U.S. and...
Instead of the deputy, a stranger (Burt Lancaster) comes to supper-a rip-roaring young buckaroo, part prophet and part pitchman, with the natural force of a Kansas twister and much the same blowhard approach. The stranger soon has the house in an uproar and Lizzie's head in...
The philosophy, for all The Rainmaker's deluge of it, is not much deeper than a puddle, and the moviegoer can usually slosh ahead without bogging down. Then too, Director Joseph Anthony keeps his actors moving nimbly along. Actor Lancaster does a businesslike job as the rainmaker. Prud'...