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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.It follows the dysfunctional family members of a Texas oil dynasty, including the complicated relationships among its alcoholic heir: his wife, a former secretary for the family company, his childhood best friend, and his ...
A classic film noir about a wealthy Texas family and their tangled love affairs. Starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone, who won an Oscar for her role as a nymphomaniac oil heiress.
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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.
A drama about two friends who fall in love with the same woman, Lucy, and the tragic consequences of their jealousy and insecurity. Kyle, an alcoholic playboy, marries Lucy and becomes infertile, while Mitch, a geologist, pursues her secretly and witnesses her miscarriage.
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Written on the Wind. Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson) is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared (Robert Keith), works hard to establish the family ...
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Written On The Wind (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Thank You, Sir Galahad First appearance of trampy oil heiress Marylee (Dorothy Malone), with grabby Roy (John Larch) and barkeeper Dan (Robert J. Wilke), who has called her newly-wedded and sober brother Kyle (Robert Stack) and his wing man Mitch (Rock Hudson), in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind, 1957.