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Written on the Wind is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.
A melodramatic film about a love triangle involving a wealthy playboy, his best friend and his sister. Directed by Douglas Sirk, it features a colorful and satirical critique of the Eisenhower era.
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- Drama
- Douglas Sirk
- 1956-12-25
Jan 18, 1998 · A perverse and wickedly funny melodrama by Douglas Sirk, starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack. Sirk subverts the materialism and hollowness of 1950s American life with his exaggerated style and irony.
Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister. On 24 October 1955, the hard-working geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York and invites ...
Why WRITTEN ON THE WIND is Essential When it was released at the end of 1956, Written on the Wind became director Douglas Sirk's most successful picture. While popular with audiences, this lush, over-the-top melodrama suffered the same critical fate as all his work in that genre.