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A Walk in the Spring Rain movie storyline. Professor Roger Meredith and his wife, Libby, journey to rural Tennessee, where Roger hopes to spend his sabbatical writing a law text. Arriving on a snowy winter night, the middle-aged couple stops for the key to their rented house at the home of farmer-mechanic Will Cade, Cade’s loquacious wife, and their profligate son, Boy.
The earthy Will is attracted to the reserved Libby and courts her, offering blunt compliments and a gift of baby goats. The romance, however, is aborted by Will’s and Libby’s respective progeny. The Merediths’ daughter, Ellen, arrives unexpectedly, announcing her acceptance by Harvard Law School and demanding that Libby return to care for grandson Bucky. Shortly after Libby’s refusal, she is molested by drunken Boy Cade but rescued by Will, who accidentally kills his son. The disillusioned Merediths return to the city, Libby having abandoned her romantic hopes, Roger his literary ambitions.
A Walk in the Spring Rain is a 1970 American romantic drama film and Eastmancolor film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Guy Green and produced by Stirling Silliphant, from his own screenplay based on the novel by Rachel Maddux. Location scenes filmed in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
It stars Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, with Fritz Weaver, Katharine Crawford, and Virginia Gregg. The music score was by Elmer Bernstein and the cinematography by Charles Lang. A little known fact is that martial arts superstar Bruce Lee, a personal friend of producer Stirling Silliphant, is credited as the film’s fight choreographer.
A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
Directed by: Guy Green
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver, Katherine Crawford, Tom Holland, Virginia Gregg, Mitchell Silberman, Janet Nelson Chadwick, David Opatoshu, Michael Bullock
Screenplay by: Stirling Silliphant
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Charles Lang
Film Editing by: Ferris Webster
Set Decoration by: Morris Hoffman
Art Direction by: Malcolm C. Bert
Music by: Elmer Bernstein, Don Black
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: June 17, 1970
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