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Cinema In The Rain | A Top 10 List

12.01.2021 , James , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog

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For more Cinema In The Rain, you can check-out the full list of nominations here. This is my final selection of 10…

 

Buster Keaton in College, 1927… directed by Keaton and James W. Horne.

 

Machiko Kyô and Ganjirô Nakamura standing in the rain, Yasujirô Ozu's Floating Weeds

Machiko Kyô and Ganjirô Nakamura in Yasujirô Ozu’s Floating Weeds [1959]. Thanks to @PaulvonMitchell for this.

 

hume cronyn and burt lancaster standing in the rain in Brute Force

Hume Cronyn and Burt Lancaster in Brute Force [Jules Dassin, 1947]. And thanks to @tbflatley for this.

 

Long shot of Shiang-chyi Chen standing in the rain with an umbrella in Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn, cinema in the rain

Shiang-chyi Chen in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn [2003]. Excellent suggestion from @Joshualilies.

 

Tom Neal Neal looking through a car window on a rainy night in Detour, cinema in the rain

Tom Neal in Detour [Edgar G Ulmer, 1945]. Thanks to @CeeManzerTweet. “Chance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail.” – IMDB.

 

Cary Grant by Harry Benson in 1957, standing in a rainy street, leaning against a pillar and pointing his umbrella towards the sky

One of the greatest actors from Hollywood’s Golden Era, the great Cary Grant. Photographed here by Harry Benson in 1957, according to @RomanPBone1.

 

Alan Ladd dressed in overcoat and hat, opening a gate at night, in the pouring rain

Alan Ladd in The Blue Dahlia [George Marshall, 1956]. Thanks @ks_1968.

 

Two characters in Tod Browning's Freaks standing by a wooden cart in the pouring rain, cinema in the rain

Tod Browning’s Freaks [1932]. Many thanks to @DJG39 for nominating this.

 

Seiji Miyaguchi and Toshirô Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, running through hard rain into battle

Seiji Miyaguchi and Toshirô Mifune in Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai [1954]. @jorgan_krusell and @Bakerdave76 nominated this one.

 

Yul Brynner standing with his hands on his hips, as King Mongut of Siam in The King And I

And a lateral one from @marniepenny at number ten; Yul Brynner ‘reigning’ as King Mongut of Siam in The King And I [Walter Lang, 1956].

 

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