The Rain People (1993, VHS)

The latter half of the 1960s played-out to the emergence of a new breed of film maker. More sophisticated audiences grew to favor fewer back-lot productions for the added dimension of films shot on location. As the technology improved, more casual and realistic films such as Easy Rider became the artistic and affordable hit-and-run alternatives to the nearly obsolete studio-bound dramas and spent musicals of a Hollywood long past its prime. By the early 1970s, the camel s innovative nose was yet again under the tent. The excesses and near-misses of directors who discover success at an early...