WRITTEN ON THE WIND - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1956
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk 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. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible secretary (Lauren Bacall) has the misfortune of marrying the clan’s neurotic scion (Robert Stack), it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend (Rock Hudson) that unleashes a maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury. Featuring an unforgettably debauched, Oscar-winning supporting performance by Dorothy Malone 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.
• Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Harry Shannon, John Larch, Joseph Granby, Roy Glenn, Maidie Norman, William Schallert, Joanne Jordan, Dani Crayne, Dorothy Porter, Benjie Bancroft, Lulu Mae Bohrman, Gail Bonney, Paul Bradley, Robert Brubaker, Boyd Cabeen, George Calliga, Dick Cherney, Carl Christian, Kevin Corcoran, Oliver Cross, George DeNormand, Tom Ferrandini, Bess Flowers, Herschel Graham, Marion Gray, Stuart Hall, Chuck Hamilton, Don C. Harvey, Phil Harvey, Bert Holland, Jane Howard, Carlene King Johnson, Chester Jones, Glen Kramer, Perk Lazelle, King Lockwood, Robert Lyden, Robert Malcolm, Colleen McClatchey, Mathew McCue, Harold Miller, Ralph Moratz, Barry Norton, Ron Nyman, Susan Odin, Cynthia Patrick, Jack Perrin, Charles Perry, Paul Power, Floyd Simmons, Ray Spiker, Norman Stevans, Hal Taggart, Blaine Turner, Robert Winans, Douglas Sirk, George Zuckerman, Robert Wilder
• Director: Douglas Sirk
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie