When a sensible secretary (The Big Sleep’s Lauren Bacall) has the misfortune of marrying the clan’s neurotic scion (To Be or Not to Be’s Robert Stack), it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend (Magnificent Obsession’s Rock Hudson) that unleashes a maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury. There’s a slight difference in the framing (and the color grading), but my understanding is that my Blu Ray has the correct AR of 2.0:1. There are two photos of the main title using the DVD info display button, then the Blu-ray in display. PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and critic Blair McClendon The Blu-ray with the same opening shot has black bars top and bottom.Written on the Wind (1956) Rock Hudson / Lauren Bacall DVD NEW FAST SHIPPING. This DVD is in the full-sized plastic case.
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Region free coded (1/2/3/4/5/6), playable with all DVD players. English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack.New interview with film scholar Patricia White about the film and melodrama.Acting for Douglas Sirk, a 2008 documentary featuring archival interviews with Sirk actors Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone and producer Albert Zugsmith.Early Bird - Kommende filmer Written On The Wind (1956) / For Alle Vinder - The Criterion Collection (UK-import) (BLU-RAY) Slippes 21/02 404 10 Veil.
Featuring an unforgettably debauched, Oscar-winning supporting performance by Dorothy Malone (Man of a Thousand Faces) and some of Sirk’s most eye-popping mise-en-scène, Written on the Wind is as perverse a family portrait as has ever been splashed across the screen Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy-these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows) reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes.