All That Heaven Allows (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray + DVD)
How much does Heaven Allow a Woman in Love?
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 10, 2014
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jane Wyman & Rock Hudson | |
| Performer: | Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey & Gloria Talbott | |
| Directed by | Douglas Sirk | |
| Edited by | Frank Gross & Fred Baratta | |
| Written by | Peg Fenwick | |
| Composition by | Frank Skinner & Joseph Gershenson | |
| Produced by | Ross Hunter | |
| Director of Photography: | Russell Metty |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Strongly slanted to ring the bell with soap-opera fans, but otherwise of limited appeal.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
One of Sirk's finest films.
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TV Guide
Rating: 8/10 --
Works as a straightforward melodrama, but is so meticulously crafted by a visual master that it provides endless material for those who wish to mine for deeper social commentary.
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Movie Metropolis
A classic and beautiful film for those who love romantic stories
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Urban Cinefile
Hudson is handsome and somewhat wooden. Laconic of speech, and imbued with an angel's patience and understanding, it's at times hard to understand his passion for the widow, what with pretty girls just spoilingfor his attention.
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Variety
Rating: 9/10 --
Proof that there is artistry and glory in a genre that never had to apologise for itself, not when it was this confident, beautiful, and good.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 4/5 --
As the camera gradually moves in on Cary's despairing face in reflection, we know the mantra of "life's parade at your fingertips" is really a mandate for her own imprisonment
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Patrick Nabarro
Product Description:
In ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, Douglas Sirk's haunting suburban morality play, Jane Wyman plays Cary Scott, a wealthy middle-aged widow in love with a younger man considered by those around her to be far below her social standing. Her torrid affair with Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), a handsome, earthy gardener, quickly creates unbearable societal pressure for Cary. Giving in to the scathing criticism of her stodgy neighbors and her materialistic children, Cary severs contact with Ron. She then discovers--perhaps too late--that her heart cannot be so easily caged.
Wyman delivers a strong, emotive performance, and Hudson smolders as her feverish romantic interest. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, marked by Sirk's distinctive, lavish visual style, stands as a searing example of how materialism can result in alienation from natural feelings. The film was remade in 1974 with additional interracial themes by German director (and unabashed Sirk fan) Rainer Werner Fassbinder as ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL; and later paid homage by Todd Haynes in his 2002 reworking FAR FROM HEAVEN.
Wyman delivers a strong, emotive performance, and Hudson smolders as her feverish romantic interest. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, marked by Sirk's distinctive, lavish visual style, stands as a searing example of how materialism can result in alienation from natural feelings. The film was remade in 1974 with additional interracial themes by German director (and unabashed Sirk fan) Rainer Werner Fassbinder as ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL; and later paid homage by Todd Haynes in his 2002 reworking FAR FROM HEAVEN.
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