The ultimate in lush melodrama, WRITTEN ON THE WIND is, along with IMITATION OF LIFE, Douglas Sirk's finest directorial effort, and one of the most notable critiques of the American family ever made.
A Texas oil baron (Stack) has a whirlwind romance with a secretary (Bacall) and then marries her, but later has doubts as to whether the child she is expecting is really his. Stacks's nymphomaniac sister (Malone) stokes up his suspicions that his best friend, geologist Rock Hudson, is really the
father, and sets off a series of larger-than-life confrontations and crises from which no-one escapes lightly.
WRITTEN ON THE WIND successfully combines all the elements...
Released:
1956
Rated:
NR
Length:
99 mins