Crawford’s performance in Rain is one of her loveliest and most appealing, although the 1932 film was poorly received by the press and public, and Crawford herself dislikes it. . . . Her twisted relationship with the zealous reformer played by Walter Huston . . . is one of those heady, erotic encounters that only the pre-code thirties could produce.
Molly Haskell
January 1, 1974