Southern Comfort (1981) Directed by Walter Hill. Cinematography by Andrew Laszlo. Music by Ry Cooder.
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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A selection of Weird Tales magazine cover art.
(unfortunately I do not know the artists of each to credit)
Virgil Finlay
To see many more - http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/weird-tales
"But now it is the rain
Possesses us entirely, the twilight and the rain."Alun Lewis
"The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks and gapes for drink again"Abraham Cowley
Gustave Caillebotte
"The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night"Langston Hughes
Jeremy Mann
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Don Delillo
J M W Turner
"The flowers are ravined
are thrown to the ground, the wind
by bees, the fruit blossoms
the rain forces everything."Charles Olsen
Albert Goodwin
John Atkinson Grimshaw
"I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light."Robert Frost
Vincent Van Gogh
"Flame burns, rain sinks into the cracks
And they all go to rack ruin beneath the thud of the years,
Stands genius a deathless adornment,
a name not to be worn out with the years."Ezra Pound
Fiodor Yasilev
Barbara Newton http://barbaranewton.blogspot.co.uk/
John K Harell
Claudia Finn http://claudiafinn.blogspot.co.uk/
Hermann Huppen
Kristin Kemper
