Who'll Stop the Rain

Do the Americans - splendid chaps though the undoubtedly are - only feel "guilty" about wars they didn't win?Did they feel guilty over WW2?

I first saw "Who'll stop The Rain" on early cable television. NICK NOLTE brings on an Animal/Ethical persona,even though he delivers "Grass" and now "Horse" from Vietnam as a Merchant Seaman.

War reporter John Converse (Michael Moriarty) is tired of the craziness of the Vietnam War. He decides to smuggle 2k of heroin into America and recruits merchant marine Ray Hicks (Nick Nolte).

It's the Vietnam War era and Nick Nolte is working with Michael Moriarty smuggling drugs back from the 'Nam. When Nolte goes to Moriarty's apartment, he's not there, but his wife, Tuesday Weld, is....

I saw "Who'll Stop the Rain" for the first time in the theater when I was fourteen years old. I've seen it a bunch of times since, including last night.

Who'll Stop The Rain is a sadly forgotten Nam era film that deftly blends genre better than most movies can ever hope to. The level of quality ratio to the amount of people who remember it is criminally unbalanced, but that's commonplace in cinema.

A soldier returning from Vietnam agrees to smuggle some heroin for a friend but the Feds are on to the scheme. Nolte is dynamic as the cynical war vet who becomes a reluctant drug runner.

I rented this movie from Blockbuster 3 years ago on DVD mainly because I'd never heard of it,it starred Nick Nolte and it's from my favorite movie year 1978.I viewed it but later forgot about it,but once again,through the channels of my local library,I was able to get a VHS copy and watch it again.

Disaffected journalist John Converse (superbly played by Michael Moriarty) enlists the aid of his gruff, weary and unsociable ex-Marine friend Ray Hicks (a fine and commanding performance by Nick Nolte) to smuggle a stash of heroin from Vietnam into the United States. When the drug drop goes sour, Hicks and John's sad, neurotic pillhead wife Marge (an excellent Tuesday Weld) go on the lam.