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Written on the Wind (1956)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
11/13
11/13:
Written on the Wind is a sappy, melodramatic snoozefest about rich people's problems.
The acting is often poor and hammy. Lauren Bacall isn't much of an actress since her first sizzling appearance in
To Have and Have Not which probably has a lot to do with her husband's presence.
Humphrey Bogart was actually unimpressed by the film and advised his wife not to be involved with another like it.
Robert Stack isn't cut out for acting, either. Rock Hudson should change his name to Wood Hudson, repeating the same
performance in Giant which was also made during 1956. The biggest shocker of them all is Dorothy
Malone winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. What did she do...sleep with the voters?
All in all, Douglas Sirk once again makes most of the colors for Written on the Wind, but I
wish the plot is as interesting as it was in All That Heaven Allows.