Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

Steve McQueen: Henry Thomas

Photos 

Quotes 

• Georgette Thomas : [woken up from Henry's banging]  Henry, what's the matter?

  Henry Thomas : I dreamt I was back in the pen. They told me I could leave, but I'd have to let myself out. Every time I got that door halfway open, it'd slam shut in my face. Them guards - all laughing at me.

• Henry Thomas : [yelling a couple feet away from Miss Kates bedroom door]  I'm not gonna quit my music! You hear that old lady? I'm *not* gonna quit my music!

• Henry Thomas : [singing]  When you woke me up this mornin', I was feelin' mighty late, You didn't bring my coffee, And you spoiled a damn good dream, So, baby, you better treat me right, Baby, better treat me right, I will do what you want me to, Baby, if you treat me right, Bring me bacon when I'm hungry, Bring me laughin' when I'm feelin' sad...

• Henry Thomas : I'm gonna be a success. You'll see. People are gonna hear about Henry Thomas.

• Henry Thomas : Honey, this is a song I wrote for you and your mama. And this is the song that's gonna make me famous. And someday, after it's recorded, and I'm rich, maybe I'll be a big movie star like Elvis Presley, and you, me and your mama, we're gonna live in Hollywood and we're gonna go to all the opening of my pictures in a big, white Cadillac car. We're not gonna have a care in this world. Just writing songs and singing songs - and making moving pictures.

  [singing] 

  Henry Thomas : Oh, my love, Is my light, Shinin' so bright, Shine for me, Little light, Little light...

• Mrs. Tillman : Well, I told Miss Kate I'd give you work and help you straighten out, Henry, and I want to. But it's very hard if you're gonna have secrets.

  Henry Thomas : I don't have any secrets from you. Not anymore. I swear to you.

• Henry Thomas : No more singing. No more string band. And no more guitar.

• Henry Thomas : I feel strong inside of myself now. Strong enough just to stand up to any kind of temptation.

• Henry Thomas : [singing]  Baby, the rain must fall, Baby, the wind must blow, Wherever my heart leads me, Baby, I must go, Baby, I must go, I am not rich or famous...

• Henry Thomas : Time's moving fast - and I gotta get ahead. And I'm not gonna give up my string band.

• Henry Thomas : What gets into me, Georgette? Why do I do these things?

• Henry Thomas : I'd like to know what it is that I've done wrong.

  Catherine : She said you never would have got drunk, stabbed that man, and wound up in the pen, if you hadn't have been playing in a honky-tonk.