Hot 100 and #2 on the Easy Listening chart. An instrumental version of the title song is used on some versions of film. As a side note, in one scene where McQueen sings at a bar with his rockabilly band, one of his bandmates (to Henry's right) is singer-songwriter Glen Campbell, who is extremely visible standing behind McQueen in a close two-shot but is uncredited in the film. The band drummer, also uncredited, is fellow session musician Hal Blaine, both members at that time of the famed Los Angeles-based "Wrecking Crew." The songs McQueen sung were dubbed by Wrecking Crew member Billy Strange despite not remotely sounding like McQueen except when singing a song directly to his character's child later in the film, during which the singing matches McQueen's voice perfectly. Lee Remick had top billing in the film itself but Steve McQueen had it for the posters, similar to the arrangement for John Wayne and James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance three years earlier. Critical reception Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, wrote "As honest and humble as is the effort to make the viewer sense a woman's baffled love for a shifty and mixed-up fellow in Baby, the Rain Must Fall, there is a major and totally neglected weakness in this film from a Horton Foote play that troubles one's mind throughout the picture and leaves one sadly let-down at the end. It is the failure of the screenwriter--Mr. Foote himself--to clarify why the object of the woman's deep affection is as badly mixed-up as he is and why the woman, who seems a sensible person, doesn't make a single move to straighten him out...Granting that the wife is astonished and distressingly mystified at the neurotic behavior of her husband, this doesn't mean that the viewer is satisfied to be kept in the dark as to the reasons for the stark and macabre goings-on...As it is, we only see that these two people are frustrated and heart-broken by something that's bigger than the both of them. But we don't know what it is." The staff at Variety wrote the film's chief assets were "outstanding performances by its stars and an emotional punch that lingers...Other cast members are adequate, but roles suffer from editorial cuts (confirmed by director) that leave sub-plots dangling." See also List of American films of 1965 References External links