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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Robert Wilder (novel)
George Zuckerman (writer)
Release Date:
December 1956 (USA) more
Tagline:
This woman in his arms was now the wife of the man he called his best friend! more
Plot:
Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Actor Robert Stack Dies at 84
(From WENN. 15 May 2003)
User Comments:
A soap opera with passion, seriousness, and intelligence... more (57 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 (service station attendant) |
 | Robert J. Wilke | ... | Dan Willis (proprietor, The Cove) |
 | Edward Platt | ... | Dr. Paul Cochrane (as Edward C. Platt) |
| Harry Shannon | ... | Hoak Wayne |
| John Larch | ... | Roy Carter (with Marylee at The Cove) |
| Joseph Granby | ... | R.J. Courtney (County Solicitor at inquest) |
| Roy Glenn | ... | Sam (butler) |
 | Maidie Norman | ... | Bertha (maid) |
| William Schallert | ... | Jack Williams (reporter) |
| Joanne Jordan | ... | Brunette |
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Runtime:
99 min | UK:100 min (re-release)
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.00 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Finland:K-12 (1989) | Finland:K-16 (1956) | USA:Approved (PCA #17932) | Australia:PG | New Zealand:R16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | West Germany:6
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Trivia:
Due to the Hay's Code, Kyle Hadley's homosexuality could not be mentioned directly in the movie. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Although set in Texas, all cars in the film have clearly visible California plates. more
Quotes:
Jasper Hadley: Welcome to Hadley. The town and the family. more
Soundtrack:
WRITTEN ON THE WIND more
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It is ironic that during the '50s, when Douglas Sirk was at his most successful in terms of audience appeal, he was virtually ignored by the critics… He is now seen, however, as a director of formidable intellect who achieved his best work in melodrama…
"Written on the Wind" is about the downfall of a Texan oil dynasty surrounded by worthless reputation, alcoholism, and nymphomania… It is about the twisted, fatal connections between sex, power, and money...
Stack draws a compelling portrait of a tormented drunken destroyed by frustration, arrogance, jealousy, insanity, and some deep insecurities…
Dorothy Malone succeeds as an attractive woman with an excessive sexual appetites, degrading herself for Hudson and to other fellows in town… Her best line: "I'm filthy." In one frantic scene, we see her shaking, quivering and sweating to a provocative mambo… In another weeping alone over a model oil-derrick at her father's desk—symbol of excessive wealth and masculine tyranny…
The frenetic atmosphere is both made palatable and intensified by Sirk's magnificent use of colors, lights, and careful use of mirrors…