It Rained All Night the Day I Left is a comedy film made in 1978 but not theatrically released until 1980.

[2] The film stars Tony Curtis and Louis Gossett Jr. as two gun-runners making a trip through the desert to transport guns for The Colonel (Sally Kellerman).

The film was released theatrically in Europe, both in its original English and in a dubbed French version titled Deux affreux sur le sable.

[2] It received no theatrical release in North America; it premiered as a television film on CTV and The Movie Channel on August 23, 1982.

[3] Kellerman later dismissed her performance in the film, telling the press that "I always say that I was solidly mediocre and everybody else stunk.