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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC1565D | Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection ; 95.Publication details: [United States] : Criterion Collection, c2001.Description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1559409126

Subject(s):

United States

Production credits:

Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, Frank Gross ; music, Frank Skinner.

Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson.Summary: When the widowed Carrie Scott falls in love with the handsome young landscaper named Ron Kirby, she finds herself the center of a maelstrom of small-town snobbery and bigotry. Neither her friends nor her children want to accept the possibility of her falling in love with a younger man, much less a man outside of their clubby circle. She almost succumbs to the pressures and yields to convention, but love, in the end, triumphs. Douglas Sirk directed several hugely popular romantic melodramas for Universal, melodramas to which he brought an ersatz European sense of style. All That Heaven Allows is very entertaining high schmaltz with a perfect '50s cast led by the dignified Jane Wyman as Cary Scott, Rock Hudson as the hunk Ron Kirby, Agnes Moorehead as Cary's best friend Sara Warren, Conrad Nagel as Harvey, Virginia Grey as Alida Anderson. Russell Metty's lavish color photography with its autumnal palette and perfect wintry New England scenes was prototypical in Universal pictures - the colors say Universal. Also with: Gloria Talbot and William Reynolds as Cary's grown children Kay and Ned, Jacqueline De Wit as Mona Plash, Charles Drake as Mick Anderson, and Hayden Rorke as Dr. Hennessy. Notes: In interviews included as part of the DVD of this film, Sirk offers insights into his method of filmmaking, with especial reference to his Universal 'women's pictures'. The critique of some aspects of American conventions is evident in his films, though probably less noticeable when they were made than they are in retrospect. Rainer Werner Fassbinder would mimic this film in one of his better films, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, but Todd Haynes' 2002 release Far From Heaven turns the story and Sirk's style into a rapturously retro cinematic treat. Screenplay by Peggy Fenwick from a story by Edna and Harvey Lee. Music by Joseph E. Gershenson and Frank Skinner. Awards: U. S. National Film Registry.Summary: Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 0068 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050089175

Run time: approx. 89 min.

Based on the story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

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"Cat. no. CC1565D"--Disc.

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