Douglas Sirk’s sumptuous but scathing melodrama explores the various obstacles and objections raised by a middle-class widow’s family and friends against her blossoming relationship with a younger, vaguely bohemian gardener. The exact, exquisite compositions and colours express a stultifying sense of entrapment by social conformism, materialism and hypocrisy.
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson star in Douglas Sirk’s influential melodrama.
- 1955 USA
- Directed by
- Douglas Sirk
- Produced by
- Ross Hunter
- Written by
- Peg Fenwick
- Featuring
- Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
- Running time
- 89 minutes
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