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A Walk in the Spring Rain

  • 1970
  • GP
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
TragedyDramaRomance

The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.

  • Director
    • Guy Green
  • Writers
    • Rachel Maddux
    • Stirling Silliphant
  • Stars
    • Ingrid Bergman
    • Anthony Quinn
    • Fritz Weaver
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Guy Green
    • Writers
      • Rachel Maddux
      • Stirling Silliphant
    • Stars
      • Ingrid Bergman
      • Anthony Quinn
      • Fritz Weaver
    • 26User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman
    • Libby Meredith
    Anthony Quinn
    Anthony Quinn
    • Will Cade
    Fritz Weaver
    Fritz Weaver
    • Roger Meredith
    Katherine Crawford
    Katherine Crawford
    • Ellen
    Tom Holland
    Tom Holland
    • Boy
    • (as Tom Fielding)
    Virginia Gregg
    Virginia Gregg
    • Ann Cade
    Mitchell Silberman
    • Bucky
    Michael Bullock
    • One of men in fight crowd
    • (uncredited)
    Janet Nelson Chadwick
    • Singer at Festival (segment "Oh Shenandoah")
    • (uncredited)
    David Opatoshu
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      • Director
        • Guy Green
      • Writers
        • Rachel Maddux
        • Stirling Silliphant
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      10MacNessa

      A tender romance torn apart by the actions of selfish offspring

      How easy it is for the children to take their parents for granted? The key moment in the film is when the mother character(Ingrid Bergman) asks her daughter, if she has ever thought about her mother as a person. This is in response to her daughter's request that she leave her Smokey Mountains paradise(and new found love), so that she can take care of her grandchild while her daughter can be free to pursue her own law career. At the same time Anthony Quinn- Bergman's lover, is presented with a similar situation with his brutish son, who eyes the blossoming relationship with growing hostility. This is probably the main theme in this wonderfully shot and pleasantly paced drama. By todays standards the ending may be a little sad, but its far more realistic.
      6ignorantbliss-30802

      A good love story

      I read about some of the bad reviews here. I don't usually write a review of any film I have watched but this time around I felt like I need to jot down something nice about this movie. It wasn't as bad viewing as I initially thought.

      I didn't expect it to be on par with other great love stories in calibre of Casablanca or Brief Encounter. But I think it is a decent film, amicable but has sad ending. The film has a beautiful scenery with the great Appalachians landscape during the spring season that makes my heart long to be in that place. It is good enough to fill my time as I didn't have any thing worthy to do. The film flows beautifully, slow at start but still engaging that keeps you glued to the screen.

      The attraction between Libby and Will was a bit rushed and Quinn did not convince me enough as a mountain handyman. Something is missing here. The scene where Libby met with Will's son came out of nowhere. They should focus a bit more on relationship between Will and his son so we can fully understand their interaction or left hanging guessing ouselves. Did he love his son or not?

      The great Ingrid Bergman as usual carries the whole movie on her shoulder. Put someone lesser in her part and the film would be unbearable to sit through. I enjoy looking at her matured beauty, she was 54 at the time but still has this luminosity and radiance coming out of her. Its hard to compete with her, when she was on screen everybody ceased to exist.
      8HotToastyRag

      Beautiful performances

      After Ingrid Bergman finally won a highly coveted Hot Toasty Rag award for her work in The Visit, she teamed up with Anthony Quinn again and earned another nomination for A Walk in the Spring Rain. They had such wonderful, intense energy together, and in this romance they both had the opportunity to play against type. Ingrid's character was a housewife who'd spent her life giving all of herself to other people. Tony played someone quiet, tender, and sweet.

      Ingrid's husband, Fritz Weaver, is a professor, and for his sabbatical, they've decided to rent a cabin in the country so he can have the peace and quiet to write a book. Fritz is intelligent, opinionated, highbrow, and rather cold. Ingrid comes to life in her new country surroundings, and as she learns to love gardening, walking in nature, and caring for animals, she also develops a friendship with the cottage caretaker: Anthony Quinn. Tony is simple, earthy, and although he has passion, he isn't demonstrative. Both he and Ingrid are married, but they can't deny the deep feelings that continue to grow.

      I know you're already out searching for a copy of A Walk in the Spring Rain, but there's a warning that comes with my recommendation. This is a drama. Yes, you'll see Ingrid looking cuter than she's ever looked, frolicking with baby deer and sheep, and Tony picks flowers for her; but something happens in this movie that's very upsetting. I won't tell you what it is or when it happens, but there is a "too good to be true" aura that surrounds the story. And when something seems too perfect. . . Well, just don't go into this movie thinking it's another Indiscreet. I loved the movie, and as a member of the Hot Toasty Rag board, I cast my vote for Ingrid, but I'm not sure I'd be able to sit through it again.

      Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to adult content, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.
      8DAW-8

      a fusion of Cape Fear and Deliverance

      This is an excellent film which I caught accidentally on a rainy afternoon on cable. A professor and his wife head to the appalachians for his 1-year sabbatical. They rent a house from Will Cade (Anthony Quinn), an overly-friendly, hospitable country bumpkin. Will from the very beginning makes comments about how pretty the professor's wife is, and that's just the beginning. While the absent-minded professor is lost in his own world, concerned about his career and completing his book, Will Cade seems to just have too much time on his hands and spends it making the professor's wife more familiar with the wonders of Appalachia. He brings her flowers from the countryside, buys her animals to keep her company, takes her to see the beautiful scenery. None of these are overt passes, but they all could be interpreted either way, which is part of the genius of the film: on the one hand, Will Cade really is doing a lot of things for this woman and anyone would be touched by them; he is extremely sincere. But on the other, there is something about him which makes you uncomfortable, maybe his over-familiarity with people he doesn't know. In this way, it's similar to Cape Fear since it indirectly says a lot about social class--the professor is overly intellectual, but passionless and emotionally handicapped, unable to think of others besides himself; while the country bumpkin is not wordly, but very genuine and giving. There are two other subplots involved a daughter of the professor and his wife, and the Will Cade's son, with whom he has conflicts which are never fully explained. Eventually, the woman gives in and kisses Cade, and I won't give away the rest of the story. But the mood of the film is very well set. There is a great scene at an appalachian country fair where Will is in rare form and the professor is clearly uncomfortable in this "culture" which he doesn't consider a "culture". The whole story is set in this haunting, appalachian environment, which is how it is similar to "Deliverance". There is that fantasy which urban dwellers have of the simple, personal country life, and then there's the in-breeding, backwardness, and so-on they are repulsed by. I highly recommend this film.
      6bkoganbing

      Passion in the Great Smokies

      A Walk In The Spring Rain has Fritz Weaver and Ingrid Bergman as a college professor of political science going on sabbatical in the Great Smokey Mountains of Eastern Tennessee. Him for peace and quiet for a year so he can publish rather than perish, she for a little time away from being a mom, grandmother, and babysitter not necessarily in that order.

      They take a cottage and the local handyman is Anthony Quinn doing a Smokey Mountain version of Zorba the Greek. He's married to psalm singing Virginia Gregg and she's no fun. Quinn has a son in Tom Holland who like his dad takes his action where he finds it.

      The educated Bergman intrigues Quinn and he gives all kinds of hints as to his availability. But this one is doomed for all kinds of reasons.

      I'm all for romantic stories with older protagonists and Quinn and Bergman fit the bill. The stars get good support from the rest of the cast. This is Bergman and Quinn's second film together and they acquit themselves well.

      Still it won't be listed among the best for either.

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      • Trivia
        Bruce Lee was fight choreographer for this film.
      • Goofs
        The daughter's position at the kitchen table when Ingrid Bergman hits the cup and saucer with her hand.
      • Quotes

        Ellen Meredith: Why is it that if a woman wants to accomplish something, even her own parents consider her aggressive, unhappy or neurotic?

        Roger Meredith: Because it's usually true.

      • Connections
        Featured in The Hollywood Collection: Anthony Quinn an Original (1990)
      • Soundtracks
        Title song
        ("A Walk in the Spring Rain")

        by Elmer Bernstein and Don Black

        Title song sung by Michael Dees

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      • Release date
        • June 11, 1970 (Australia)
      • Country of origin
        • United States
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Setnja po prolecnoj kisi
      • Filming locations
        • Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park - 107 Park Headquarters Road, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA
      • Production company
        • Pingree Productions
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      • Gross worldwide
        • $52
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      • Runtime
        • 1h 38m(98 min)
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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