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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 drama about a love triangle involving a wealthy playboy, his best friend and his sister, set in Texas. The film features Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone, and won an Oscar for Best Original Song.
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- Drama
- Douglas Sirk
- 1956-12-25
A perverse and wickedly funny film by Douglas Sirk, who subverts the materialism and hollowness of 1950s American life with exaggerated style and irony. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone star in this soap opera about oil, alcohol, nymphomania and impotence.
A drama about two friends who fall in love with the same woman, and the tragic consequences of their jealousy and insecurity. Kyle Hadley, an alcoholic playboy and oil heir, marries Lucy Moore, but suspects her of having an affair with his best friend Mitch Wayne, a geologist.
A 1956 film about a love triangle in a wealthy Texas family, directed by Douglas Sirk, a master of the genre. The movie is praised for its visual style, its satire of the phoney life of the rich, and its subtext of homosexuality.
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- Rock Hudson
- Douglas Sirk
- Drama
1 Photo. Film Details. MPAA Rating. Genre. Drama. Release Date. Jan 1957. Premiere Information. Los Angeles, Chicago, IL, New Orleans, LA and Tulsa, OK opening: 25 Dec 1956; New York opening: 11 Jan 1957. Production Company. Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc. Distribution Company.
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A Technicolor expressionist tragedy about a dysfunctional Texan oil family and their love triangles. The film features Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Dorothy Malone in a subversive critique of American culture.