i generally like watch burt lancaster film especially when he be need to go nut with his impose screen presence like in elmer gantry . however and his great strength and his magnetism and be occasionally also his great weakness a he rarely and if ever and underplayed anything . and it be this lack of subtlety that really hinder the rainmaker . now i understand that his character be mean to be a sort of showman but how katherine hepburn could fall under his spell be completely inexplicable . she be suppose to be smart but doesn not seem so when lancaster blarney be be throw about the screen . in addition to this and the story be perhaps one of the most stagy look film i have ever see and it be way too obvious that this be a movie base on a play . it just look like it be mostly film in a sound stage instead of in the great wide open west like it be suppose to be . overall and a very overrated film .