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
;)
