All I Desire (You Belong to Me) (1953)
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All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband Richard Carlson, itinerant actress Barbara Stanwyck returns to her home town to watch her daughter perform in a high school play. Stanwyck decides to turn over a new leaf and… More All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband Richard Carlson, itinerant actress Barbara Stanwyck returns to her home town to watch her daughter perform in a high school play. Stanwyck decides to turn over a new leaf and devote herself to the daughter she's never known. This she finds next to impossible, thanks to ugly small-town gossip attending her return. The film was obviously building up to an unhappy ending, but producer Ross Hunter intervened, tacking on an unbelievably upbeat denouement. This artistic outrage evidently didn't hurt Hunter's relationship with director Douglas Sirk, inasmuch as the two would continue to successfully collaborate in the future. All I Desire is based on a novel by Carol Brink. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Douglas Sirk
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1953 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Sean Axmaker, Seanax.com
The dark corners in [Douglas] Sirk's America are first explored in All I Desire...
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Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile
Sustained by wonderful performances, especially by Barbara Stanwyck, the story is engaging and develops in unexpected ways
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
All the flaws cannot be attributed to Sirk, who does fine work slicing up small-town America's bourgeois life.
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Derek Smith, Cinematic Reflections
[It] may be the most ironic statement on the disturbing allure of 50s suburbia that Sirk ever made.
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Cast
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Barbara Stanwyck
as Naomi Murdoch
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Richard Carlson
as Henry Murdoch
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Lyle Bettger
as Dutch Heinemann
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Marcia Henderson
as Joyce Murdoch
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Maureen O'Sullivan
as Sara Harper
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Lori Nelson
as Lily Murdoch
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Richard Long
as Russ Underwood
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Lotte Stein
as Lena Engstrom
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Dayton Lummis
as Col. Underwood
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Fred Nurney
as Peterson
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Billy Gray
as Ted Murdoch
- Brett Halsey
- Charles Hand
- Guy Williams
