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Written On The Wind - The Criterion Collection
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Newly reissued on Blu-ray! Douglas Sirk's Technicolor expressionism 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.
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Acting for Douglas Sirk, a 2008 documentary featuring archival interviews with Sirk; actors Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone; and producer Albert Zugsmith
- New interview with film scholar Patricia White about the film and melodrama
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and critic Blair McClendon
- New Blu-ray cover illustration by Sam Hadley
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 99 mins approx
- Douglas Sirk
- NR
- Rock Hudson
- Lauren Bacall
- Robert Stack
- Dorothy Malone
English
- 1956
- English
- 1
- A
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Written On The Wind - The Criterion Collection
MSRP: $39.99
$32.99
Save: $7.00
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Newly reissued on Blu-ray! Douglas Sirk's Technicolor expressionism 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.
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Acting for Douglas Sirk, a 2008 documentary featuring archival interviews with Sirk; actors Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone; and producer Albert Zugsmith
- New interview with film scholar Patricia White about the film and melodrama
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and critic Blair McClendon
- New Blu-ray cover illustration by Sam Hadley
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 99 mins approx
- Douglas Sirk
- NR
- Rock Hudson
- Lauren Bacall
- Robert Stack
- Dorothy Malone
English
- 1956
- English
- 1
- A
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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