You take a lot of stories--and you roll them up into one big fat ridiculous lie! The fast-talking confidence man offers to bring rain to Three Point in twenty-four hours if he is paid $100 in advance. STARBUCK. He is full of dreams, passion, and self-confidence -- a quality unhappily unmarried, young Lizzie Curry especially lacks. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Finally, the The Rainmaker script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie based on the John Grisham novel starring Matt Damon, Mickey Rourke, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Virginia Madsen, yadda yadda.. Into Lizzie's life sweeps Starbuck (Burt Lancaster), a slick-talking con artist who promises the townspeople that for 100 bucks, he can make it rain. Why'd you send them out on those fool errands? STARBUCK. Starbuck (Burt Lancaster), having failed to bring rain, turns his talents to the demoralized spinster Lizzie (Katharine Hepburn) in The Rainmaker, 1957.. View the TCMDb entry for The Rainmaker (1956) He doffs his hat and his bow is … With Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges. Lizzie--it’s just right for I said let go. The play opened on October 28, 1954, at the Cort Theatre in New York City, and ran for 125 performances. The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s new production of the N. Richard Nash hit The Rainmaker is an apt thematic fit for a summer this hot. The name’s Starbuck. And Starbuck's and Lizzie's love scene takes place under a misty white moon that peers out of a huge expanse of sky.

The next year, Nash turned his story into a Broadway hit, and two years after that the film version was born. This monologue takes place in the tack room when Lizzie brings the bedding to Starbuck. Directed by Joseph Anthony. LIZZIE. THE RAINMAKER by N. Richard Nash LIZZIE. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of The Rainmaker.

LIZZIE Starbuck, you silly jackass. The arrival of a charming con man named Starbuck promising to bring rain in exchange for $100 sets off a series of events which enable Lizzie to see herself in a new light. She wants a man “to stand up straight,” and she wants “to stand up straight to him.” Suddenly, the door swings open to reveal a stranger on the threshold. The Rainmaker began as a 1953 teleplay by N. Richard Nash. With Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges. It was directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by Ethel Linder Reiner. In the early 1950s, somewhere Out West, the Curry family ranch is in trouble. A spinster named Lizzie Curry falls in love with him. (he espies Lizzie and his whole manner changes. What for? The Rainmaker: "Well! Actor Scenes Monday, April 9, 2007.

The story was also made into a Broadway musical, 110 in the Shade. That evening, Lizzie is heartbroken to learn that File is not coming to dinner, but the deputy is soon replaced at the Currys’ dinner table by Starbuck.

Heather Cunningham as Lizzie and Mitch Mitchell as Starbuck in a rehearsal scene from “The Rainmaker.” now playing Rainmaker, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Other Dreams. Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm and perhaps a romance for 'spinster sister' Lizzie STARBUCK If you think it’s the same thing then I take it back about your name! The name’s Starbuck. "The Rainmaker" ends with the timely arrival of a much-desired downpour, a watery deluge that should be accompanied by an equal rush of feeling on the part of the audience. Directed by Joseph Anthony. She explains that her dream is to experience the simple beauty of everyday domestic life. STARBUCK I wasn’t lyin’--I was dreamin’! STARBUCK. “The name is Starbuck—Rainmaker!” he announces; for one hundred dollars paid in advance he LIZZIE. The Rainmaker Center Stage North through October 14, 2017 .