Who'll Stop The Rain is a 1978 psychological drama film released by United Artists. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Herb Jaffe and Gabriel Katzka with Sheldon Schrager and Roger Spottiswoode as executive producers. The screenplay was by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone from Stone's novel Dog Soldiers. The music score was by Laurence Rosenthal and the cinematography by Richard H. Kline. The film was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based on Robert Stone's novel Dog Soldiers, which had been winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1975. For its... original US theatrical release it was re-titled Who'll Stop the Rain, after the song by Creedence Clearwater Revival, which features prominently on the film's soundtrack. The film was released as Dog Soldiers for release in several foreign territories. Some copies of the DVD of Who'll Stop the Rain actually contain prints titled Dog Soldiers. Stone based the character of Ray Hicks on Beat writer Neal Cassady, with whom Stone became acquainted through novelist Ken Kesey, a classmate of Stone's in graduate school at Stanford University.
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| Release date: | August 2, 1978 |
| Directed by: | Karel Reisz |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 126 Minutes |
| Editor: | John Bloom |
| Music by: | Laurence Rosenthal |
| Cinematography: | Richard H. Kline |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Stone, Judith Rascoe |
| Adapted from: | Dog Soldiers |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |