Word: pakula
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Baby the Rain Must Fall is a synthetic little Southern drama, all fancied up with yokel color and art-film flourish. The folksiness carries over from Scenarist Horton Foote's Broadway and TV play, The Traveling Lady. The flourishes must be charged to Producer Alan Pakula and Director Robert Mulligan who were teamed more happily in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Love with the Proper Stranger...
Happily, the movie soon rises above downbeat sociology. Filming in Manhattan, Producer Alan J. Pakula and Director Robert Mulligan (the To Kill a Mockingbird team) have not only caught the flavor of the city-they have imbued it with a gritty freshness all their own. An Italian neighborhood springs to life in one vivid scene set against the background of a concrete piazza, where the men play bocce while the women pull food out of brown paper bags. Some of the film's funniest moments involve Tom Bosley as Angie's feverish, fumbling suitor. One look from...
...clock everything is quiet. Chinese troops in grey-blue uniforms are squiggling around in the foreground. Suddenly Major John J. Pakula, American air officer, says: "Okay, they're on their way in." A Chinese officer yells "Yenmutan" ("smoke shell") to his telephonist...