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Written on the Wind

1956

Douglas Sirk

Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone ...

7.5

7,173

Drama On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York and invites her to go to a conference with the alcoholic playboy and son of a tycoon Kyle Hadley. On the way of the meeting, he confesses that they had traveled from Houston to New York to satisfy the wish of the reckless Kyle, who is his best friend since their ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"In countless ways visible and invisible, Sirk's sly subversion skewed American popular culture, and helped launch a new age of irony. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Variety	"Intelligent use of the flashback technique (...) builds immediate interest and expectancy without diminishing plot punch. Tiptop scripting (...) dramatically deft direction by Douglas Sirk and sock performances by the cast give the story development a follow-through."	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"The trouble with this romantic picture (...) is that nothing really happens, the complications within the characters are never clear."	NEG

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