The Rainmaker - DVD

Burt Lancaster stars as Bill Starbuck, a charismatic con man in the Depression-era Midwest, who breezes into a drought-stricken Kansas town claiming he can bring the rain. But Starbuck winds up transforming it-and local spinster Lizzie Curry (Katharine Hepburn)-more with his audacity and idealism than from any unproved weather-changing powers. Wendell Corey, Earl Holliman, and Lloyd Bridges co-star; Broadway director Joseph Anthony helmed N. Richard Nash's adaptation of his play. 121 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English. Region Free

Denzel Washington directs and stars in this uplifting drama based on a true story about a small East Texas all-black college in 1935 that rises to the top of the nation's debate teams in a duel against Harvard. A poet and debating coach at Wiley College, Professor Melvin Tolson (Washington) sees debating as Incha blood sportInch and recruits the meanest and brightest, including troubled Henry (Nate Parker), driven Samantha (Jurnee Smollet), and the 14-year-old prodigy James Farmer, Jr. (Denzel Whitaker). Director Denzel Washington Star Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Jurnee Smollett, John Heard, Nate Parker, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, Gina Ravera, Kimberly Elise Special Features Anamorphic Widescreen Audio Dolby Digital Stereo - English Additional Material Audio Commentary Deleted Scenes Featurettes on Music Music Videos Text/ Photo Gallery Casting Costume and Design Poetry of Melvin Tolson Year of 2007.

Idealist John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) and enters into a passionate, but loveless, marriage with Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) a wealthy New Orleans belle, But John soon learns that Susanna's mother died in a lunatic asylum and it becomes apparent that Susanna has inherited her family's curse for she tricked him into marriage, Frustrated with life, John leaves home by enlisting in the Northern Army and fights in Tennessee and Georgia during the terrible and brutal Civil War where he does some soul searching for himself and explores his path in life to what may lay in store for him should he return home.