Douglas Sirk - All That Heaven Allows (1955)

Cary, a wealthy widow, falls in love with the much younger nurseryman, Ron Kirby. This provides gossip for the country club set, and her children are ashamed that she plans to remarry below her station. Ron is an independent man who can ignore the petty conventions of society, but can Cary also ignore them?

Douglas Sirk is a truly underrated director, and this film shows why. Although this film becomes more highly regarded as the years go by, especially by non-Americans, it is usually regarded as just a well made soaper. Big mistake. This is a very angry film, a scathing commentary on the conformity and mindlessness that characterized much of the 1950s. Remember, this film was made in 1955, before there were any beatniks or hippies, before the civil rights movement, before there was any pot smoking, before anyone beyond the fringes questioned any of the basic values underlying capitalist America. America was at the peak of its power and prestige, and this was perhaps the first mainstream film that questioned the values that presumably were responsible for that ascendancy. Because this film is essentially about class and the primacy that human relationships must have over material gain, social acceptance, and social conformity.

Think of the forbidden (at the time) themes that this film deals with. Older woman, younger man. The shallowness, insipidity, and snobbery of the upper middle class arrivistes who have "made it," all of which masks their basic insecurity, unhappiness, and self-loathing. A male lead who doesn't care about acceptance by anyone, who doesn't care about money or success, who just wants to be happy and "do his own thing," well over a decade before that phrase was coined. The Wyman character foolishly (at first) decides that acceptance by her peers and children is more important than finding happiness with a man she truly loves, and what does she end up with for companionship? A television set! This was the decade in which "The Lonely Crowd" was published, and this film exemplifies that concept, as well as striking examples of other- vs. inner-directed, far better than any other film of its time.

Sirk was truly a visionary, well ahead of his time. This was why this film inspired Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" and Todd Haynes' "Far from Heaven." It is all the more powerful for having been made then and in not being a retrospective look, as is "Far from Heaven," from a more "enlightened" future time.












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Douglas Sirk - Zu neuen Ufern AKA To New Shores (1937)

«With this movie, Detlef Sierck enters the path of glory.Combining the melodramatic side of "Das Mädchen von Moorhof" and the social comment of " Stützen def Gesellshaft", he brings it all back home and makes his second major work (after "La Habanera"). Since it's his last movie in Nazi Germany, it's all the more precious .

Gloria Vane is a scandalous singer in Victorian times;even if she had not been (unfairly ) accused of forgery ,they would have had her performance censored anyway.Gloria Vane is too much and the brilliant scene on stage (yes sir, no sir) shows Zarah Leander at her best, easily equaling Marlene Dietrich singing "falling in love again". Later, when Sierck worked in the US ,he would search around for another Zarah Leander and Dorothy Malone ("Written on the wind" and "Tarnished Angels") would be some kind of replacement.

Crazy situations abound: the show in London;the parade of the fiancées which looks more like a cattle fair; the romantic suicide;the bride all in white ,waiting for her groom;and the final scene ,which continues the refinement already sketched out in " das Mädchen von Moorhof" ,a scene Sirk would carry to perfection in the grandiose finale of his final achievement "imitation of life" : the choir of altar boys who breaks into "Gloria (sic) In Exelcis Deo" predates Mahalia Jackson and choir singing "trouble in the world" by twenty years.Christian faith (which would emerge again in the Hollywood years with such works as "the first legion" "thunder on the hill" "magnificent obsession" or "imitation of life" ) is oddly absent during the whole movie but is essential to the happy ending.

Sirk does not forget his sense of humor : while the males are looking for their spouses in Paramata ,one of them complains about heat while another one thinks young men are degenerate people for they do not appreciate fat women; the cuckold's wife's attitude when she learns Finsbury's death;and last but not least ,do not forget to buy "brooms made in Paramata" by our female convicts.

"Zu neuen Ufern" compares favorably with Max Ophuls' works of the thirties ,particularly "liebelei" (there are many similarities between the two stories) and "Sans Lendemain". »

Review on IMDB, by user dbdumonteil






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Douglas Sirk - Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)

"Douglas Sirk directed this frothy musical comedy set in the 1920s starring Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an elderly man with a multi-million dollar fortune. With no family of his own to whom he can leave his money, Fulton is pondering what to do with his estate. Years ago, he was in love with a woman named Harriet, whom he asked to marry. She turned him down and married another someone else, but he's still fond of her and considers leaving his millions to her family. However, Fulton decides to first give them a test. Posing as an eccentric and threadbare artist, he rents a room from Harriet (Lynn Bari) and her husband Charles (Larry Gates). He then arranges for an anonymous gift of $100,000 to be presented to them so that he can watch their reactions. Sadly, things don't go well; Harriet browbeats the rest of the family into moving into a mansion and tries to convince her daughter Millicent (Piper Laurie) to break up with her boyfriend, poor but good-hearted soda jerk Dan (Rock Hudson), in favor of a wealthier and more socially prominent man. Songs include "Tiger Rag," "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along," "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," and "Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?" James Dean has a tiny part as a customer at the soda fountain; it was his first appearance onscreen. "
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Douglas Sirk - Written on the Wind (1956)

Synopsis
Mitch Wayne and Kyle Hadley, the playboy son of an oil tycoon, have been best friends since childhood. Kyle's wild sister, Marylee, hopes to marry Mitch, but he thinks of her as a sister. Marylee says that Mitch finishes everything Kyle starts. Mitch and Kyle both fall in love with Lucy, but she marries Kyle before Mitch can express his feelings.

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Aficionados often rank Written on the Wind (1956) as one of the director’s best; and, while it hasn’t worn quite as well as All That Heaven Allows to these jaded eyes, it still packs a punch. The film’s use of an almost enameled Technicolor recalls Magnificent Obsession, but the story is much stronger. The artificial lighting and crazy color schemes for which Sirk was noted are here, but there’s again (as in All that Heaven Allows) an emotional intensity, carried to operatic extremes, that works against the idea that the film is merely a florid exercise in camp.








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Douglas Sirk - Thunder on the Hill (1951)

Description: Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer. Written by Herman Seifer {alagain@aol.com} (IMDB).



Synopsis form ozus' world by Dennis Schwartz:

Douglas Sirk's ("Battle Hymn"/"Lured"/"Sleep, My Love") intense melodrama about a nun solving a murder is based on the West End play Bonaventure by Charlotte Hastings. It's scripted by Oscar Saul and Andrew Solt, and aptly kept claustrophobic and suspenseful by following the mystery film's conventions.



Heavy rains flood the countryside of Norfolk County, England, where Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth), a convicted murderess, is being escorted to Death Row by a police matron (Norma Varden) and a Sergeant Melling (Gavin Muir). Unable to proceed, they stopover at the Convent and Hospital of Our Lady of Reims, located out of harm's way on top of the hill. Also there are a number of local rustics escaping the flood; the bug-eyed Isabel Jeffreys (Anne Crawford), the wife of hospital surgeon Dr. Edward Jeffreys (Robert Douglas); the simple-minded mumbling handyman Willie (Michael Pate), the hateful nurse Phillips (Phyllis Stanley); the efficient but eccentric chemist (John Abbott); the sweet convent cook Sister Josephine (Connie Gilchrist), who believes one should never throw out a newspaper or a piece of string because it might come in handy one day; the believably rigid Mother Superior (Gladys Cooper) and the intuitive hardworking edgy matron of the hospital Sister Mary Bonaventure (Claudette Colbert).



Sister Mary takes one look at the convicted murderess and is convinced she's innocent; later she hears Valerie play a piano piece her deceased brother Jason composed and is further convinced she didn't poison her brother to death after he had his second stroke and was under her care.



Playing a Nancy Drew type of sleuth, Sister Mary gains a crestfallen Valerie's confidence and brings her bewildered fiancé Sidney Kingham (Philip Friend) to the convent through the ingenuity of Willie. He takes her to the nearest town by rowboat over the broken dyke, something the smart coppers couldn't think of as a way to get their prisoner to the execution on time. This stirs up hope in Valerie, and Sister Mary believes the floods are an act of God to delay the execution and give her a chance to clear the name of Valerie. In the climax, Sister Mary smokes out the real killer, one of those staying at the hospital, and in the convent's belltower is confronted by the killer.



It might sound half-baked but the acting is top-notch, the story is convincing and the shadowy convent backdrop is made good use of in keeping the whodunit tense throughout.









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Douglas Sirk - Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Plot

Bob Merrick is a reckless playboy who is indirectly responsible for the death of a kindly and much-beloved doctor. The dead man's wife, Helen Phillips, refuses to accept Bob's apologies. When Helen is accidentally blinded, Bob decides to "do right" by her anonymously...












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