Directed by:
Douglas SirkScreenplay:
Peg FenwickCinematography:
Russell MettyComposer:
Frank SkinnerCast:
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott, William Reynolds, Charles Drake, Hayden Rorke, Leigh Snowden (more)Plots(1)
This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow (Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). When their romance prompts the scorn of her children and 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. With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty, Sirk imbues nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Jane Wyman
USA
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Rock Hudson
USA
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Agnes Moorehead
USA
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Conrad Nagel
USA
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Virginia Grey
USA
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Gloria Talbott
USA
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William Reynolds
USA
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Charles Drake
USA
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Hayden Rorke
USA
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Leigh Snowden
USA
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David Janssen
USA
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Jacqueline deWit
USA
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Donald Curtis
USA
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Nestor Paiva
USA
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Eleanor Audley
USA
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All That Heaven Allows (1955)
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Gia Scala
UK
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Merry Anders
USA
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Forbes Murray
Canada
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Joseph Mell
USA
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Anthony Jochim
USA
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