Name: Douglas Sirk’s WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956)
Start: 2025-04-09T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-09T21:00:00-04:00
Location: The Carolina Theatre of Durham

$Douglas Sirk\u2019s WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956)$

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Douglas Sirk’s WRITTEN ON THE WIND
(1956, 99 min)
A noble secretary (Lauren Bacall) marries into the Hadley dynasty, a mega-rich and corrupt family. Her husband (Robert Stack) is hugely jealous of his good-natured surrogate brother (Rock Hudson), while his scheming sister (Dorothy Malone), the town tramp, sows suspicions of his wife’s infidelity. Hudson and Bacall may play the heroes, but it’s the flawed, damaged rich kids who Sirk is most interested in. Malone, especially, gives a larger-than-life, almost experimental performance as the black sheep of the family, and won an Oscar for the role. Its portrayal of the rot at the heart of extreme wealth would be explored in a similar setting on TV’s “Dallas”.
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