Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack
A wealthy clan of Texas oil barons have their American Dream pulled apart by lust, greed and dirty family secrets.
DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001
Stats: 170 reviews
The words "Hollywood melodrama" will make the majority of high-brow film critics sneer - however when you add another two words, Douglas Sirk, that sneer turns into a smile. What is it about this director, who essentially laid the groundwork for the modern soap opera, that appeal...( read more)
So over the top and melodramatic it's scary. The drunken Robert Stack makes the movie, expecially towards the end when he falls off the wagon and goes in search of cheap corn liquor. Lauren Bacall seems a little out of place, but overall it works.
Written on the wind
This is one of the true Classic's. It was recommended by my true friend raimoyna, as always she picks the best in Classic Films. This one here stars the True Rock, Rock Hudson that is along with Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, and Robert Stack. Robert Stack...( read more)
The specialization of Douglas Sirk for melodramatic films is really something i didnt expect to love. Maybe the charm or the good look of Rock Hudson that just transported me to this love story which i find amazingly cheesy, but this film is good. Although maybe not so much for t...( read more)
Douglas Sirk's continuation of the slick 50s Hollywood melodramas made for Universal Pictures is this sly, funny soap opera about a Texas oil baron (Robert Stack) with a drinking problem and a new wife (Lauren Bacall). The new wife is interested in her husband's best friend (Rock...( read more)
Another Sirk classic. Rock Hudson has rarely been better and the rest of the cast are exceptional too. Sirk's films have a strange quality to them. They seem both familiar yet ever-so-slightly unsettling. He was most definitely a smuggler of deeper and darker issues than what was...( read more)
This really was a movie that had really good parts, and not so good parts. The best part was the tolkin Oscar winner: Dorthy Malone as Mary-lea. Oh she was so good! So good- even if she can't drive a car, is it a really windy road or what! Robert Stack as Kyle, wasn't as good, bu...( read more)
Entertaining melodrama that verges on the point of soap opera. Great support from Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack (although Stack overdoes it in some parts).
This board looks lonely. Be the first to talk about "Written on the Wind" !
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
All Rotten Tomatoes content is used under license from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes, Certified Fresh, and the Tomatometer are the trademarks of Incfusion Corporation, d/b/a Rotten Tomatoes, a subsidiary of IGN Entertainment, Inc.
Click a thumb to vote on that suggestion, or add your own suggestions.
