Miracle in the Rain 1956

     This film is based on a novel by Ben Hect.  The setting is New York City during WWII.  Ruth Wood has a secretarial job and she takes care of her mother, this is her life.  Her father called her mother on the phone and he said he wasn’t coming home anymore.  Since that phone call, her mother hasn’t left the house.  She warns Ruth every day about men.  After leaving the office one evening, Ruth meets a young soldier from Tennessee.  He helps her with her packages because there is heavy rain.  They stop at the deli and he buys more food, he’s invited himself to join Ruth and her mother for dinner?  They start to see each other and fall in love but he is soon sent overseas.  He gives her his mother’s engagement ring and tells her they will get married when he comes back to New York.

     There is a lot of drama in this film, it will pull at your heart and try to make you cry too.  The two lead characters are a very nice couple and you want the best for them.  They seem to have had some hard times in the past so they don’t deserve more.  3 ½* (I liked this movie) 

108 min, Drama directed by Rudolph Mate with Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle, Fred Clark, Eileen Heckart, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Marcel Dalio, George Givot, Barbara Nichols.

Note:  Imdb 7.3 out of 10, 71% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.7* out of 5* with 91 reviews, TCM 2.5* out of 4*.

Special Note:  Jane Wyman was the first wife of Ronald Reagan, they married in 1940 and divorced in 1949.  She was born 1/5/1917 and she died at the age of 90 on 9/10/2007  This film was held in a vault for a long time and not released again until 2/6/07, a month after she died and 51 years after the original release!