This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s american mores by douglas sirk written on the wind follows the blossoming love between a well off suburban widow magnificent obsession's jane wyman and her handsome and earthy younger gardener rock hudson'. '.strtoupper('a')fter their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed in existence for the sake of the approval of others.with the help of ace cinematographer russell metty spartacus, sirk imbued nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor'. '.strtoupper('a') profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small town america, all that heaven allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic hollywood melodrama.2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural sound trackaudio commentary featuring film scholars johnmercer and tamar jeffers mcdonaldrock hudson's home movies 1992, a ground breaking essay film about the actor by mark rappaportfrench television interview with director douglas sirk from 1982excerpts from behind the mirror a profile of douglas sirk, a 1979 bbc documentary featuring rare interview footage with the directorcontract kid william reynolds on douglas sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who co starred in three sirk films, including all thatheaven allowstrailerplus a booklet featuring an essay by film scholar laura mulvey and an excerpt from a 1971 essay on sirk by filmmaker rainer werner fassbinder​
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