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Name: Written on the Wind
Director: Douglas Sirk
Released: 1956

Written on the Wind (1956) — Douglas Sirk

Written on the Wind

Douglas Sirk

Synopsis

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.

Year1956

CountryGermany

DirectorDouglas Sirk

Films Written on the Wind Inspired

His great influence, he said, was the German director Douglas Sirk, who fled Hitler and in Hollywood made a series of silky melodramas ('Imitation of Life,' 'Written on the Wind,' 'All That Heaven Allows')...Fassbinder's later films looked like elegant studio productions

Sirk is the one who established their tone, in which shocking behavior is treated with passionate solemnity, while parody burbles beneath.

— Douglas Sirk · Roger Ebert - Great Movies (Written on the Wind)

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