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The Rainmaker(1926)
Status: Released
Date: 1926-05-10
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Time: 0h 50m
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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.
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Movie: The Rainmaker
Top 10 Billed Cast
Georgia Hale
Nell Wendell
William Collier Jr.
Bobby Robertson
Ernest Torrence
Mike
Brandon Hurst
Doyle
Joseph J. Dowling
Father Murphy (as Joseph Dowling)
Tom Wilson
Chocolate
Martha Mattox
Head Nurse
Charles K. French
Hospital Doctor
Jack Richardson
Western Doctor
Melbourne MacDowell
Bennson
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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.
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1926-05-10
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