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Name: Written on the Wind
Released: 1956-12-1
Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith

Written on the Wind

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1h 39m
1956

88%

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Kyle Hadley, a troubled Texas oil heir, spirals into jealousy and self-destruction when he suspects his childhood friend Mitch of having an affair with his wife, Lucy. As secrets, addiction, and family conflicts come to light, the glamorous façade of the Hadley empire shatters in turmoil, betrayal, and sorrow.

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Producer:

Albert Zugsmith

Writer:

George Zuckerman

Cast:

Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Harry Shannon, John Larch, Joseph Granby, Roy Glenn, Maidie Norman, William Schallert, Joanne Jordan, Dani Crayne, Dorothy Porter

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

88%

Reviews

FILMHOUNDS Magazine

Paul Klein

Sirk's natural inclination is to focus more on what is not being said than what is.

And this, indeed, is what Sirk did in the boldest, most outrageously stylized moments of his chart-topping commercial successes of the 1950s: how transparent can I make thwarted passion and never condescend as a European intellectual to American life?

Douglas Sirk’s excellent and subversive drama, Written on the Wind, shows a rich family coming unglued, ungripped, unzipped.

A sumptuous yet outrageous joy wrought with unforgettable behavior, tempting romance, and raw performances.

Toss in impotence, jealousy, alcoholic binges, emotional blackmail and backstabbing nastiness, mix vigorously with high style and expressionist flourishes, and youve got the most potent melodrama cocktail of the 1950s.

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