Soldier in the Rain

…Papa’s Delicate Condition (1963), and Soldier in the Rain (1963). Gleason’s subsequent film career was spotty, but he did have memorable turns in the cable television film Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (1983) and in the movie Nothing in Common (1986). He reunited with Carney and Meadows for a series…

…with the Proper Stranger (1963), Soldier in the Rain (1963), Baby, the Rain Must Fall (1965), and The Cincinnati Kid (1965). He received his only Oscar nomination for another war epic, The Sand Pebbles (1966), but his definitive role came as a world-weary detective solving a mob murder case in…