Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)

A week ago they were strangers. An hour ago they were lovers. Now they are targets.

John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.

Directed by: Karel Reisz

Written by: Robert Stone, Judith Rascoe

Music by: Laurence Rosenthal

Starring: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey, Gail Strickland, Charles Haid, David Opatoshu, Joaquín Martínez

Genre: Crime, Action, Drama

Released: 1978-08-02

Runtime: 126 minutes

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Who'll Stop the Rain (1978): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• The film is based on Robert Stone's novel Dog Soldiers (1974), which won the National Book Award (US) for fiction in 1975.
• The screenplay is by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone, based on Stone's novel Dog Soldiers (1974), the music score by Laurence Rosenthal, and the cinematography by Richard H. Kline.
• Hicks' death scene on the railroad tracks at the film's conclusion is directly based on Cassady's death along a railroad track outside of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1968.
• It was released by United Artists and produced by Herb Jaffe and Gabriel Katzka with Sheldon Schrager and Roger Spottiswoode as executive producers.

Source: Wikipedia

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