Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind (1956) is one of classical Hollywood''s most striking films and
ranks among Douglas Sirk''s finest achievements. An intense melodrama about
an alcoholic playboy who marries the woman his best friend secretly loves,
the film is highly stylised, psychologically complex, and marked by Sirk''s
characteristic charting of the social realities of 1950s America.

This first single study of ...