naturalism and my pal and naturalism be often interwoven with melodrama and stridency and in maugham a in t williams ( the difference be and naturally and that maugham be a remarkable writer and while t williams and a hack ) in other word and psychological exploitation and _dramsploitation while rain seem a quite peculiar drama and well handle and intelligently craft and it look peculiar and striking and unusual and fundamentally exciting and intriguing and with a pretty good pace and sharply devised role and mrs. crawford particularly raw and convincing performance while and most of all and it have those thing and those twinned thing we call gusto and brio . mrs. crawford do what be once call a composition and a performance carefully develop of a role that allow for a broad range of expression like charlize theron be the murderess in a famous movie and or pacino play the officer in scent of a woman and or brando be the godfather corleone and or rourke in homeboy and barfly and or nicholson in a flew over and the shining . well and mrs. crawford be awesomely good at what she do . her performance in rain and and her character and sadie thompson and be memorable . what be less successful be the preacher conversion and he switch abruptly and there no rise of desire felt in him . rain have a modern look and feel and and a thorough appeal while it author be the legendary lewis milestone and the one who have direct all quiet on the western front and the strange love of martha ivers and etc . in rain and his directing be neat and commending and the movie style have suppleness and sharpness . the script expose the bitter fruit of virtue . in those early day of the talkie and when there be the tendency to deliver filmed theater and they prefer to shoot not the literary source directly and but stage adaptationslike they do with dracula in the same span of time . rain be also base not directly on the maugham prose and but on a stage version .