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The Rainmakers Rare RKO LaserDisc Comedy

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Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey and Dorothy Lee in...

The Rainmakers

RKO Classic Collection

( Catalog Number ID7083TU )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

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The Rainmakers
1935 - 78 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
After six box-office smashes in a row, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey came a-cropper with 1935's The Rainmakers. The boys are cast respectively as Billy and Roscoe, professional rainmakers summoned to the drought-stricken farming community of Lima. Everyone in town hopes that Roscoe's magnetic rain-making contraption will bring about a cloudburst -- everyone, that is, except town banker Simon Parker (Berton Churchill), who wants the drought to continue so he can buy up all  the land at dirt-cheap prices. When Parker fixes it so that the boys' first public demonstration of their machine will be completely unattended, Billy and Roscoe decide that they need to stage a spectacular publicity stunt to stir up interest. They arrange for a second demonstration to coincide with the planned collision of two dynamite-loaded railroad engines. As the crowd gathers, however, the engineers panic and quit, leaving our heroes to run the engines themselves -- and the result is a tiresome, protracted chase sequence, rendered doubly dull by some of the least-convincing back-projection work in movie history. The traditional duet between Bert Wheeler and his perennial leading lady Dorothy Lee, "Isn't Love the Grandest Thing," is the highlight of The Rainmakers, thanks to a clever gag involving a "tree of truth"; this routine would later find its way into the 1942 Abbott & Costello comedy Pardon My Sarong. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Cast for The Rainmakers

Bert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Dorothy Lee
Berton Churchill
George Meeker
Frederick Roland
Edgar Dearing
Clarence Wilson

Crew for The Rainmakers

Producer Lee S. Marcus
Cinematographer Ted D. McCord
Costume Designer Walter Plunkett
Director Fred Guiol
Editor John Lockert
Writer Albert Treynor
Writer Grant Garett
Writer Fred Guiol
Writer Stanley Rauh
Writer Leslie Goodwins

Feature Details

Title: The Rainmakers
Feature Release Date: 1935
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 78 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 18 Sep 1992
Catalog Number: ID7083TU
UPC: 014381708363
Manufacturer: Kuraray
Collection: RKO Classic Collection
Publisher: Image Entertainment

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ID7083TU
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare RKO Pictures LaserDisc

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket

Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey and Dorothy Lee in...

The Rainmakers

RKO Classic Collection

( Catalog Number ID7083TU )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc

The Rainmakers
1935 - 78 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
After six box-office smashes in a row, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey came a-cropper with 1935's The Rainmakers. The boys are cast respectively as Billy and Roscoe, professional rainmakers summoned to the drought-stricken farming community of Lima. Everyone in town hopes that Roscoe's magnetic rain-making contraption will bring about a cloudburst -- everyone, that is, except town banker Simon Parker (Berton Churchill), who wants the drought to continue so he can buy up all  the land at dirt-cheap prices. When Parker fixes it so that the boys' first public demonstration of their machine will be completely unattended, Billy and Roscoe decide that they need to stage a spectacular publicity stunt to stir up interest. They arrange for a second demonstration to coincide with the planned collision of two dynamite-loaded railroad engines. As the crowd gathers, however, the engineers panic and quit, leaving our heroes to run the engines themselves -- and the result is a tiresome, protracted chase sequence, rendered doubly dull by some of the least-convincing back-projection work in movie history. The traditional duet between Bert Wheeler and his perennial leading lady Dorothy Lee, "Isn't Love the Grandest Thing," is the highlight of The Rainmakers, thanks to a clever gag involving a "tree of truth"; this routine would later find its way into the 1942 Abbott & Costello comedy Pardon My Sarong. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Cast for The Rainmakers

Bert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Dorothy Lee
Berton Churchill
George Meeker
Frederick Roland
Edgar Dearing
Clarence Wilson

Crew for The Rainmakers

Producer Lee S. Marcus
Cinematographer Ted D. McCord
Costume Designer Walter Plunkett
Director Fred Guiol
Editor John Lockert
Writer Albert Treynor
Writer Grant Garett
Writer Fred Guiol
Writer Stanley Rauh
Writer Leslie Goodwins

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