All That Heaven Allows
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Based on the story by Edna L. Lee & Harry Lee.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
Special features include audio commentary, Rock Hudson's home movies, essay film by Mark Rappaport, French television interview with Douglas Sirk from 1982, excerpts from Behind the Mirror, a profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary, Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview, trailer.
Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott, William Reynolds, Hayden Rorke.
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After 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.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Contents: All that heaven allows.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Library Journal ReviewCOMMUNITY REVIEWS
If you want to appreciate Douglas Sirk, see Todd Haynes. submitted by lisa on July 30, 2019, 2:12pm Particularly, watch this film, and then watch Far from Heaven.
SERIES
Criterion collection
95.
PUBLISHED
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781604658446
1604658444
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987,
Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985,
Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007,
Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974,
Skinner, Frank, 1897-1968,
Lee, Edna, 1890-1963.
Universal-International (Firm),
Criterion Collection (Firm),
SUBJECTS
Widows -- Drama.
Young men -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
May-December romances -- Drama.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.