The Rainmaker

May 10, 1926

0h 50m

★ 10.0

Overview

The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Nell Wendell

Georgia Hale

Bobby Robertson

William Collier Jr.

Mike

Ernest Torrence

Doyle

Brandon Hurst

Father Murphy (as Joseph Dowling)

Joseph J. Dowling

Chocolate

Tom Wilson

Head Nurse

Martha Mattox

Hospital Doctor

Charles K. French

Western Doctor

Jack Richardson

Bennson

Melbourne MacDowell

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