Movies

September, 1978

Hard drugs--a couple of kilos or so of pure heroin--are the motivating factor of Who'll Stop the Rain? (adapted by Robert Stone and Judith Rascoe from Stone's novel Dog Soldiers). Back in 1971, a weak and demoralized war correspondent (Michael Moriarty) persuades a former Marine Corps buddy (Nick Nolte) to smuggle the stuff home from Vietnam by ship, for delivery to his unsuspecting wife (Tuesday Weld). None of the three knows that they have been set up for a corrupt Government agent (Anthony Ze...