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'''A Hatful of Rain''' is a 1957 dramatic film. It stars Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva.
The movie was adapted by Michael V. Gazzo, Alfred Hayes and Carl Foreman from the play by Gazzo. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann and features a strong musical score by Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann was asked by Fox to rescore his prelude for the film as the original was considered "too terrifying".
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Franciosa).
The movie was a rarity for its time in its frank depiction of the impact of heroin addiction. However artistic sources are not absent if one thinks already in the Homer's Odyssey we find the loto eaters as addicts. The plot is set in a flat of a council house. Johnny Pope is a soldier who comes back from the war of Korea. There, moreover, he has had a particular shock. He meets his wife Celia who is in pregnancy, and his brother Polo. His father John Sr. lives far away, from outside the family as usual. His brother will mark the story out wth an exuberant involvement. People will have to face local crime, because John is addict. People's trouble has really an older cause and the fiction develops in inner and introspective ways.
This was William Hickey's film debut.

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