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Written on the Wind (1956)
Drama
Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's WRITTEN ON THE WIND is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance) as his nymphomaniac sister.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Tags: Dorothy Malone, Douglas Sirk, Grant Williams, Lauren Bacall, Robert Keith, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson
Posted on July 6, 2014 |
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All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Drama | Romance
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Tags: Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Douglas Sirk, Gloria Talbott, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Virginia Grey
Posted on November 18, 2013 |
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Drama | Romance | War
John Gavin plays Ernst Gräber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon arrival, he discovers a city that bears little resemblance to the one he left behind – and so, through the rubble of the air-raids, he searches desperately for fragments of his family's shattered lives. But amid the shards, he falls in love with Elisabeth (Liselotte Pulver), the charming daughter of a doctor who in years prior tended to the Gräber family. Ernst thus activates a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love… even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.
Starring: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore, Keenan Wynn, Dieter Borsche
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Tags: Dieter Borsche, Don DeFore, Douglas Sirk, Jock Mahoney, John Gavin, Keenan Wynn, Liselotte Pulver
Posted on November 7, 2013 |
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The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Drama | Romance
In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, William Schallert, Troy Donahue
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Tags: Dorothy Malone, Douglas Sirk, Jack Carson, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Troy Donahue, William Schallert
Posted on February 18, 2013 |
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Imitation of Life (1959)
Drama | Romance
Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.
Starring: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Dan O'Herlihy, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Tags: Dan O'Herlihy, Douglas Sirk, John Gavin, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker, Lana Turner, Robert Alda, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner
