A Hatful of Rain is a 1957 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva.

It features music by Bernard Herrmann, who was asked by 20th Century Fox to rescore his prelude for the film as the original was considered to be terrifying.

In a housing project apartment in New York City, Johnny Pope lives with his pregnant wife Celia and his brother Polo.

His survival made him a hero in the newspapers, but his ensuing recuperation in a military hospital left him secretly addicted to the painkiller morphine, with Polo his only family member aware of his condition.

John Sr. expresses his pride in Johnny's war service and that he has married a fine wife, is starting a family and lives in a nice apartment, while Polo is renting a room from his brother, is unmarried and works in a bar that his father considers low-class.

When Johnny returns in the morning, he is feeling withdrawal symptoms and needs to meet a dealer for a fix, but his father expects to spend the day with him.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called A Hatful of Rain "a striking, sobering film" and wrote: "The sum of it is a harrowing picture of what it means for a man to be a slave of the dope habit—what it costs in money, in anguish and in hurt to those he loves.

... [T]hey have contrived a tremendously taut and true description of human agony and shame, of solicitude and frustration and the piteousness of tangled love.

"[6] Critic Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "'A Hatful of Rain' takes a grip on the spectator that gradually grows viselike and never lets go till the fadeout—if then.