Rating: NR
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 06/19/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1/5.1
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Criterion

Perhaps the definitive Douglas Sirk production, Written on the Wind is based on the novel by Robert Wilder. The story revolves around the Hadleys, a wealthy but thoroughly debauched family of Texas oil millionaires. Robert Stack is self-destructive alcoholic Kyle Hadley, while Dorothy Malone won an Oscar for her equally vivid potrayal of Kyle's nymphomaniac sister Marylee. Kyle manages to win beautiful, level-headed advertising executive Lucy Moore (Lauren Bacall) away from his best friend, virile Hadley Oil geologist Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson), but Lucy soon comes to regret her decision to marry into the hell-on-earth Hadley family. When Lucy becomes pregnant, Kyle assumes that Mitch is the father, leading to a maelstrom of fever-pitch emotionalism and stark tragedy. Before he quite knows what is happening, Mitch is on trial for murder; the one person who can clear him is the craven Marylee, who demands Mitch's sexual favors as the price for her testimony.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Rock Hudson - Mitch Wayne
Lauren Bacall - Lucy Moore Hadley
Robert Stack - Kyle Hadley
Dorothy Malone - Marylee Hadley
Robert Keith - Jasper Hadley
Grant Williams - Biff Miley
Robert J. Wilke - Dan Willis
Edward Platt - Dr. Paul Cochrane
Harry Shannon - Hoak Wayne
John Larch - Roy Carter
Maide Norman - Bertha
William Schallert - Reporter
Joanne Jordan - Brunette
Dani Crayne - Blonde
Dorothy Porter - Secretary

Production:
Douglas Sirk - Director
Albert Zugsmith - Producer
Frank Skinner - Composer
Russell Schoengarth - Editor
George Zuckerman - Screen Writer
Russell A. Gausman Julia Heron - Set Designer
Alexander Golitzen - Art Director
Robert Clatworthy - Art Director
Robert Wilder - Book Author
Richard Metty - Cinematographer
Russell Metty - Cinematographer
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer
Jay A. Morley, Jr. - Costume Designer
Joseph E. Gershenson - Musical Direction/Supervision
Sammy Cahn - Songwriter
Leslie I. Carey - Sound/Sound Designer
Clifford Stine - Special Effects
William Holland - First Assistant Director

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