All that heaven allows / Universal-International presents ; produced by Ross Hunter ; directed by Douglas Sirk ; screenplay by Peg Fenwick.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2999D | CriterionCC2999D-1 | CriterionCC2999D-2 | CriterionSeries: Criterion collection ; 95.Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: DVD editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681435565
- 168143556X
- All that heaven allows (Motion picture)
- Cinematography, Russell Metty ; editor, Frank Gross ; music, Frank Skinner ; gowns, Bill Thomas.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA ALL THAT | Checked out | 05/21/2024 | 33111009928967 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson). Sirk builds up sympathy for Cary by showing how empty her life has been since her husband's death, even suggesting that the marriage itself was no picnic. Throwing conventionial behavior to the winds and facing social ostracism, Cary pursues her romance with Ron, who is unjustly perceived as a fortune-hunter by Cary's friends and family--especially her priggish son Ned (William Reynolds). Amusingly, Conrad Nagel was to have had a much larger part as Harvey, an elderly widower who carries a torch for Cary, but his role was trimmed down during previews when audiences disapproved of an implicit romance between a sixtyish man and a fortysomething woman! All That Heaven Allows was remade by unabashed Douglas Sirk admirer Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Ali--Fear Eats the Soul (1974), in which the age gap between hero and heroine was even wider. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; region 1, NTSC; monaural, 1.75:1 aspect ratio, SDH, region 1, Dolby audio.
Optional subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott, William Reynolds, Charles Drake, Hayden Rorke, Jacqueline de Wit, Leigh Snowden, Donald Curtis, Alex Gerry, Nestor Paiva, Forrest Lewis, Tol Avery, Merry Anders.
Cinematography, Russell Metty ; editor, Frank Gross ; music, Frank Skinner ; gowns, Bill Thomas.
Title from title frame.
Based on the story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
Rating: Not rated.
Special features include audio commentary; Rock Hudson's home movies, an essay film by Mark Rappaport; interview with Douglas Sirk from 1982 French television program Cinéma cinémas; 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.
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.
disc one. Feature ; Commentary ; Trailer -- disc two. Rock Hudson's home movies ; Behind the Mirror, a profile of Douglas Sirk ; Contract kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk ; Cinéma cinémas.