The Rain People Val Lewton she's flustered by her protégé's

she's flustered by her protégé's physical attraction

The Mission is a powerful action epic about a man of the sword (Robert DeNiro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons) who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires

Unflinchingly dark

and the ghosts of Edward Elgar and a long-dead Pagan King

• Historical commentary track with authors and film historians Kat Ellinger and Samm Deighan

The Rain People Val Lewton she's flustered by her protégé'sDESCRIPTION Unsure of herself, months pregnant and feeling trapped, Natalie Ravenna leaves her sleeping husband a note and drives away from her Long Island home one rainy morning to find herself. Natalie is the heroine of Francis Ford Coppola's intensely moving drama, The Rain People. Ahead of it's time from both it's filmmaking and feminist points of view, the film took Coppola and his eight vehicle crew through eighteen states, lending this poignant