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Rated: PG

MEDIUM LEVEL VIOLENCE, ADULT THEM

Director
Douglas Sirk

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

Genres
Drama

Running time
99 mins
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Written on the Wind

This deliriously entertaining melodrama, made by Douglas Sirk in 1956, stars Rock Hudson as the loyal friend and colleague of unstable Texas oil heir Robert Stack. The film begins with a killing (although we don’t see the details) and then flashes back to tell the story of Stack’s relationship with New York designer Lauren Bacall, a woman Hudson also loves. Pivotal to the drama is Stack’s unstable sister, a role which won Dorothy Malone a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. The film is shot in deliberately lurid colours and revels in the excesses of its symbolism and imagery. It’s tremendous fun.

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