“Who'll Stop the Rain” quotes
(1978)
Title Who'll Stop the Rain
Year 1978
Director Karel Reisz
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, War, Action
Year 1978
Director Karel Reisz
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, War, Action
Plot – John Converse is a journalist tired of the society in which he lives - America after '68 and Vietnam. While in Saigon as a war correspondent, he thinks he can change his life for the better by starting a drug trafficking business. So he manages to convince his friend, veteran Ray Hicks, to smuggle two kilograms of heroin to Oakland, where the journalist's wife Marge is to place the goods. However, the two naive young men are betrayed by their supplier Charmian. As soon as he arrives home, Ray is pursued by Agent Antheil, assisted by two thugs, Danskin and Smitty, who he has picked up in jail. Ray and Marge, having found a safe hiding place for Marge's daughter Jennifer, flee with the heroin first to Los Angeles and then, since they find it impossible to place the drugs, to an abandoned mission in the rugged mountains of New Mexico. However, the dirty cops have decided to take possession of the drugs and to sell them themselves. They besiege the fugitives, holding John Converse hostage. The heroic Ray, using all the skills he learned while in Vietnam, eliminates the opponents and makes sure the Converses are saved. When John finds Ray bleeding in the desert at their meeting place, he disperses the heroine into the wind and walks away with his wife.
All actors – Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey, Gail Strickland, Charles Haid, David Opatoshu, Joaquín Martínez, James Cranna, Timothy Blake
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“They got my buddy, man. Now they're going to kill him and that pretty lady. How am I going to let them do that? Did you see the way she walked to her fate? Nothing but class. She's the love of my life, no shit. Beats the hell out of all of them.”
“You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.”
“In Vietnam I had men that were dead the day they hit that place. In the morning they were in Hawaii, in the afternoon they were dead.”
- Marge Converse: What's it say?
- Ray Hicks: "In danger, all that counts is going forward".
- Marge Converse: What else?
- Ray Hicks: "By growing used to danger a man can allow it to become part of him. He grows used to evil".“- Marge Converse: Why did you carry for John?
- Ray Hicks: Because he asked me to. I don't always have to have a reason for the shit I do.”“- Danskin: Shut up! What the hell is the matter with you?
- John Converse: I don't know. But pretty soon I'm either going to be away from you, or dead. And either way, it's fine with me.”“- John Converse: Don't they say this is where everybody finds out who they are?
- Ray Hicks: Yeah? What a bummer for the gooks.”“- Ray Hicks: Your husband once told somebody I was a psychopath.
- Marge Converse: That's the kind of thing he'd say.
- Ray Hicks: Do you think he could be right?
- Marge Converse: It's a very imprecise term.”“- John Converse: You okay?
- Danskin: I could beat you to death, you know that?
- John Converse: Absolutely!”“They're animals. You can't make a deal with animals”
- Charmian: Shit, you don't know, do you? You just know you want it, right?
- John Converse: "I desire to serve God and to grow rich like all men".
- Charmian: Who said that?
- John Converse: I don't know. Some great hustler of the past.“All my life I've been taking shit from inferior people. No more.”
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