Very melodramatic (but it's a melodrama!) and definitely soapy... but there is just something undeniably fantastic about it. Sirk is the master of mirrors and using the color Red. Dorothy Malone is a scene-stealer in an already great cast.
This review of Written on the Wind (1956) was written by Cameron M on 31 Mar 2008.
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