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In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.
Donald Kerr
- Comic
- (scenes deleted)
Lois Austin
- Mrs. Underwood
- (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
- Porch Loafer
- (uncredited)
Margaret Bert
- Mrs. Pellix
- (uncredited)
Henry Blair
- Senior
- (uncredited)
Lela Bliss
- Belle Stanton
- (uncredited)
Virginia Brissac
- Mrs. Tomlin
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis marked the first time Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Long worked together. They became good friends more than a decade before playing mother and son in The Big Valley (1965).
- GoofsIn he scene in the kitchen, where Lily is eating honey, the cooks hands go from dirty to clean and back again.
- Quotes
Naomi Murdoch: We're a big disappointment to each other, aren't we? You've got a mother with no principles; I've got a daughter with no guts.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Acting Normal: Billy Gray on Douglas Sirk's All I Desire (2008)
- SoundtracksAll I Desire
by David M. Lieberman
Featured review
All I desirk
Douglas Sirk was the prince of melodrama in the fifties.However,there are two kinds of melodramas in his work :the extravaganzas ("Imitation of life" which nearly cut Stahl's version,"written on the wind" "magnificent obsession" ) and the intimate dramas which verge on realism: "all that heaven allows" or "tarnished angels" are good examples.When he connects all the links of the chain ,he produces his masterpiece ,the overlooked "a time to love and a time to die" .
"All I desire " belongs to the second kind of melodrama;its story is simple -but that kind of simplicity ,it takes years and years of practise and a touch of genius to make it work.Barbara Stanwyck -excellent- is the black sheep of the family,the mean woman who walked out on her family and what a nice family they are!In the small town where her husband is a principal in a high school ,people will talk.And there's the prodigal woman's erstwhile beau.
(Re)building of a family was one of Sirk's main permanent features: Hudson and Wyman in "ALL that heavens" and "magnificent obsession" ,Sarah Jane and her mother's friends in "imitation of life" .
"All I desire " belongs to the second kind of melodrama;its story is simple -but that kind of simplicity ,it takes years and years of practise and a touch of genius to make it work.Barbara Stanwyck -excellent- is the black sheep of the family,the mean woman who walked out on her family and what a nice family they are!In the small town where her husband is a principal in a high school ,people will talk.And there's the prodigal woman's erstwhile beau.
(Re)building of a family was one of Sirk's main permanent features: Hudson and Wyman in "ALL that heavens" and "magnificent obsession" ,Sarah Jane and her mother's friends in "imitation of life" .
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- dbdumonteil
- Dec 7, 2006
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- Budget
- $460,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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