All That Heaven Allows: Special Edition  (1955)
 Criterion Collection

Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of '50s 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.

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89 min.
Drama

Amaray


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$39.95
*6/19/2001

Video:
1.85:1
Anamorphic Widescreen
Color

Audio:
English - Dolby Digital Mono

Subtitles:
English

Cast:
Agnes Moorehead
Gloria Talbott
Jane Wyman
Rock Hudson
Virginia Grey
William Reynolds

Director:
Douglas Sirk

Special Features:
Trailer
Liner Notes by film theorist Laura Mulvey
Production Photos and Lobby Cards
"Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk" (1979)
BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
"Imitation of Life: On the Films of Douglas Sirk"
A seminal essay by Sirk admirer and filmmaker Rainer Fassbinder; illustrated with rare ephemera