This lovely short 1990 Christian film Waiting For The Wind was Rhonda Fleming's last film (as I write this she just passed on) and rounding up near the end of Robert Mitchum's film career as well. I have no information on why these two big name stars agreed to do this "little" film but thank God they did, and thank God I stumbled on it after perusing Rhonda's films on Amazon Prime Video. It looked like it might have aired on television that year, perhaps on a Christian station, like a regular TV movie. Rhonda was still beautiful and Robert still handsome, in his own rugged way. They play a married couple whose daughter had been killed in a car crash, leaving a husband and son who miss her very much. Robert himself has terminal cancer and is trying to finish a hand-built boat he has parked on his farm so that he can hopefully take his grandson on a memorable trip on it before he passes on. Will he be able to achieve his goal?
I kind of wish this film had been at least an hour long. There could have been far more to explore in the basic framework of the story. But when any film has a character mentioning the Holy Spirit and which quotes Bible scripture I am so totally thrilled because I can probably count on less than two hands the number of films I've seen in my life that are that bold. Amen and amen!
I kind of wish this film had been at least an hour long. There could have been far more to explore in the basic framework of the story. But when any film has a character mentioning the Holy Spirit and which quotes Bible scripture I am so totally thrilled because I can probably count on less than two hands the number of films I've seen in my life that are that bold. Amen and amen!