FM-A071-1955

All That Heaven Allows

Audio

DVD

F&MS

No

Available

Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames-within-frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children and the gossip of her social-climbing country club chums. Criterion is proud to present this subversive Hollywood tearjerker in a new special edition. Also Includes: - An hour of excerpts from "Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director - "Imitation of Life: On the Films of Douglas Sirk", an illustrated essay by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder - A collection of vintage lobby cards and production stills