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Which future stars appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People?

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Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background. — Francis Ford Coppola American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola won the Oscar for best director for *The Godfather: Part II* (1974).

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1969 film The Rain People featured performances by several actors who would go on to become prominent stars, most notably James Caan and Robert Duvall.1

In the film, Caan portrayed a former football player suffering from a brain injury, while Duvall played a Nebraska policeman who crosses paths with the protagonist, a pregnant housewife played by Shirley Knight.1