Le Passager de la Pluie
Taglines: Who will he terrorise… Who will he attack… Who will be his next victim?
Rider on the Rain movie storyline. A beautiful woman living in southern France is raped by a masked assailant. The woman who managed to kill the man who attacked him, throws his body into the sea. This event is briefly over and everything seems normal. But suddenly a cat and mouse game starts between an inspector and a woman. It’s like the inspector knows all about the woman.
Rider on the Rain (French: Le Passager de la pluie) is a 1970 French mystery thriller film starring Charles Bronson, directed by René Clément, produced by Serge Silberman, with film music composed by Francis Lai.
In 1970, the film won the Special David of the David di Donatello Awards. In 1971, it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, and for the Golden Laurel.
The film was shot in both English and French dialogue versions. In an interview with Variety (magazine), Bronson said he learned his lines in French phonetically, so that his own voice would be heard on the soundtrack. It was the last time he did this for European films, allowing himself to be dubbed-over in all subsequent films. The film was a big hit in France, the third most popular movie of 1970.
Bronson’s agent Paul Kohner said it was “the turning point for Bronson – and probably his best. In a few weeks, his name was so big in Europe that hundreds of theatres there were running old American pictures with the name Bronson above the title, even though originally he had played the third or fourth lead.”
Rider on the Rain (1970)
Directed by: René Clément
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marlène Jobert, Gabriele Tinti, Jean Gaven, Corinne Marchand, Annie Cordy, Steve Eckardt, Ellen Bahl, Jean-Daniel Ehrmann, Yves Massard, Marika Green
Screenplay by: Sébastien Japrisot
Production Design by: Pierre Guffroy
Cinematography by: Andréas Winding
Film Editing by: Françoise Javet
Costume Design by: Rosine Delamare
Set Decoration by: Pierre Lefait
Music by: Francis Lai
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, sexuality and some thematic elements.
Distributed by: Embassy Pictures
Release Date: May 24, 1970
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