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1.Imitation of Life starring: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda directed by: Douglas Sirk January 01, 1998
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Imitation of Life is a more than a great movie & storie.You will emjoy watching & learn how we looked the world in 1950"s.How we saw coler & race. I learn we are all the same in all ways.Imitation Of Life "Great Movie".

2.All That Heaven Allows starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey directed by: Douglas Sirk February 17, 1998
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"All That Heaven Allows" is a 1950s sudser that can be watched on a couple of levels. First and foremost is the entertainment value. Jane Wyman is so terrific playing widow Carrie Scott. Within the first twenty minutes of the movie, three different suitors move in on her. The most intriguing, and from the perfect 1950s standpoint, the most unconventional, is her landscaper, Ron Kirby. Ron is younger. Material wealth means nothing to him, preferring to spend his time with his trees, living Thoreau rather than just reading him. Carrie eventually gives in to temptation and the suburban milieu she skates over is in an uproar. Tongues wag, and her children are shamed: A gardener, Mom! Perish the thought! Let's get you a television instead! It's a soap opera, of course, but also, on a ... Read More

3.Magnificent Obsession starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger directed by: Douglas Sirk January 01, 1998
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I enjoyed the story and loved how a person can choose to change his life for the better. However, for Dr. Merrick to suddenly appear at a sanitarium in New Mexico, and then have a very nice operating room complete with viewing window that you might imagine finding in a large well equiped hospital was a little difficult to swallow. The nurse and companion, Nancy, suddenly became a scrub nurse and miraculously knew every instrument!! And then, to top it off, after a very long and difficult surgery, the patient was placed in a bed in a hotel-style room containing a huge curtained window with fresh air wafting through. There was no IV, no moniters, etc. etc. After such a surgery, the patient would be placed in a post op--critical care environment. I felt the script should have been tweaked ... Read More

4.Tarnished Angels starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton directed by: Douglas Sirk May 14, 1996
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This is the forgotten Douglas Sirk film from his golden period in the 1950's when he made such classic Baroque-style women's pictures as "Magnificent Obsession", "All That Heaven Allows", "Written on the Wind" and "Imitation of Life". The black-and-white 1958 film doesn't have the saturated color palette of Sirk's frequent cinematographer, Russell Metty (who did lens those other films), nor does the story, based on William Faulkner's novel "Pylon", have as strong an orientation toward a female protagonist as the others. Yet, the film has many of the filmmaker's trademark melodramatic flourishes and some superb shot compositions, this time photographed by Irving Glassberg. The result is quite worthwhile and sadly not available yet on DVD. Set in 1932 New Orleans (though you can hardly ... Read More

5.Written on the Wind starring: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith directed by: Douglas Sirk March 01, 1992
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"Written on the Wind" is gaudy, garish bauble - a perfect piece of escapism. True, Douglas Sirk's films have more to offer than what is just on the surface, as professional film historians would attest. But in terms of pure entertainment, how can you beat Dorothy Malone as the blackmailing sex bomb Marylee Hadley dancing in an orgiastic frenzy while everyone's lives are literally being destroyed around her? Or Robert Stack as boozy, bombastic Kyle Hadley, who keeps a girly gun underneath his pillow at night and can't cope with the knowledge of being seemingly impotent? (Is that pearl inlay on that tiny piece?) Then there's red-socked Mitch Wayne, played by Rock Hudson. Everyone wants Mitch Wayne, including ultimately Kyle's wife, Lucy (played by Lauren Bacall), nympho Marylee, and even subconsciously ... Read More

6.All I Desire starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson directed by: Douglas Sirk September 12, 1995
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The mark of director Douglas Sirk and producer Ross Hunter is all over this glossy melodrama. ALL I DESIRE gave Barbara Stanwyck one of her meatier roles during the lean years of the 1950s', playing a disgraced woman who returns to her hometown. Based on the novel "Stopover" by Carol Ryrie Brink, the story concerns Naomi Murdoch (Barbara Stanwyck), a third-rate vaudevilian performer who abandoned her husband and children following a torrid affair in their tight-knit Wisconsin town. Ten years later, after receiving a heartfelt letter from younger daughter Lily (Lori Nelson), Naomi returns home to see her perform in the highschool play, re-opening old wounds and awakening painful memories. With it's lush Edwardian period design, ALL I DESIRE is a very memorable movie, especially for ... Read More

7.Scandal in Paris starring: George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart directed by: Douglas Sirk June 27, 2000
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"In crime as in love," says Francois Eugene Vidocq, "there are only those who do and those who don't dare." This is the amusing, clever story of Vidocq (George Sanders), who was born in a Paris prison in 1775 and spent the next 30 years as a cad, a thief and a relatively successful criminal. And then he became Paris' chief of police and spent the rest of his life catching criminals. It's based on a true story. His epiphany came, according to the movie, through the love of a virtuous woman who was prepared to join him in crime if that was the only way to show her love for him. This so affected him that he decides not to rob the Bank of Paris, confesses all to his prospective father in law (the Minister of Police), who forgives him and blesses the marriage to his daughter. Vidocq, after all, was an even ... Read More

8.Lured starring: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke directed by: Douglas Sirk December 08, 1998
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What a pleasure to watch this movie filled with great character actors and great sets. Ms Ball gives a very good performance as a dance hall hostess helping Scotland Yard track down her friend's killer.

9.Battle Hymn starring: Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer directed by: Douglas Sirk May 14, 1996
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The producers wanted Robert Mitchum to play the leading role for this movie, but the real Dean Hess did not want someone who was convicted for marijuana use to portray him in the movie. So, Hudson got the part. I found it a touching film that portrayed the early days of Korea. The Mustangs had the correct markings and the aerial sequences are good. The enemy Yaks were actually T-28 trainers. War is filled with tragedy, and the killing of civilians in this movie brings that fact home. It is an enjoyable '50's era war film about a war that seems almost forgotten today, which is unfortunate. The airlift rescue of the orphans gives a happy ending to the movie about a war that did not end the way Americans were accustom to.

10.The First Legion starring: Charles Boyer, William Demarest, Lyle Bettger, Barbara Rush, Leo G. Carroll directed by: Douglas Sirk
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The producers wanted Robert Mitchum to play the leading role for this movie, but the real Dean Hess did not want someone who was convicted for marijuana use to portray him in the movie. So, Hudson got the part. I found it a touching film that portrayed the early days of Korea. The Mustangs had the correct markings and the aerial sequences are good. The enemy Yaks were actually T-28 trainers. War is filled with tragedy, and the killing of civilians in this movie brings that fact home. It is an enjoyable '50's era war film about a war that seems almost forgotten today, which is unfortunate. The airlift rescue of the orphans gives a happy ending to the movie about a war that did not end the way Americans were accustom to.

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