Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.
This 1995 documentary, cowritten and codirected and hosted by Martin Scorsese, is one of the most passionate and informative explorations of classic American cinema.
Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman star in the first great melodrama by director Douglas Sirk, an operatic tale of hubris and loss and sacrifice and rebirth in a Technicolor world.
