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Written On The Wind

1956, Movie, NR, 99 mins

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Written On The Wind: Review

WRITTEN ON THE WIND
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The ultimate in melodrama, Douglas Sirk's finest directorial effort, and a searing critique of the American family. Texas oil baron Robert Stack marries secretary Lauren Bacall, but has doubts about the child they're expecting. Stacks's nymphomaniac sister Dorothy Malone tells him his best friend, geologist Rock Hudson, is really the father. Florid, lurid and one of the great American films of the '50s. Best of all is Malone, a wanton bombshell with so much sex appeal, she gives her daddy a heart attack. Read the complete review for Written On The Wind

Written On The Wind: Cast & Details

Year: 1956
Rated NR
User Rating: (1 ratings)
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Cast
 Rock Hudson: Mitch Wayne
Lauren Bacall: Lucy Moore Hadley
Robert Stack: Kyle Hadley
Dorothy Malone: Marylee Hadley
Robert Keith: Jasper Hadley
Grant Williams: Biff Miley

 

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Written On The Wind: TV Guide News

  • Mad About Mad Men | Matt Roush | 7/19/2007
    I can't remember the last time the most buzzed-about show at a summer critics' press tour had nothing to do with the broadcast network's fall offerings. But this week, the show we can't stop talking and thinking about, and wishing we had more episodes to watch, is AMC's Mad Men, a period drama about advertising men and their professional and sexual exploits at the dawn of the '60s. (It premieres Thursday at 10 pm/ET.) Here's how I logged my first impression of the show in the pages of TV Guide recently, where I gave it a score of 9 out of 10: "Wow. The period look is dazzling: the women's tight skirts, the men's slicked hair. If iconic director Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind) had made TV, it would have looked like this. But this sleek, sexy, smartly cynical drama about selling everything from cigarettes to Nixon also nails the era's attitudes of casual prejudice and sexual manipulation."In this show, men are wolves and women are pawns, Jews are invisible or patronized, and gays a... read more

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