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Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind

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Summary

Melodrama starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack. When Lucy Moore falls in love with the handsome son of a Texas millionaire, her life is transformed. But Kyle Hadley is a tormented man with a secret that not even Moore can discover until it's too late.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Tom Hutchinson

For all its flaunting of wealth and power, this melodrama from Douglas Sirk is a brutal indictment of the way the American Dream plunges spiritual values down-market. Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall star as the "normals" sucked into the hysterical paranoia of a Texas oil millionaire's spoilt offspring, played by Robert Stack and Oscar-winning Dorothy Malone, who are outstanding in their portrayals of unleashed anger and arousal. Flashbacks explain without confusion, and watch the way Sirk uses the colour red to depict Malone's sexuality. It could have been trashy, but in Sirk's masterful hands it becomes a riveting case history.

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7.3/10

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Cast

rolenameMitch WayneRock HudsonLucy MooreLauren BacallKyle HadleyRobert StackMarylee HadleyDorothy MaloneJasper HadleyRobert Keith (1)Biff MileyGrant WilliamsHoak WayneHarry ShannonDan WillisRobert J WilkeDr Paul CochraneEdward PlattRoy CarterJohn Larch

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rolenameDirectorDouglas Sirk

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Theatrical distributor

British Film Institute Ltd

Languages

English

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