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All I Desire (1953)
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July 1953 (USA)
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Now He Knew Her as Other Men Had!
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In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted. full summary | add synopsis
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(Complete credited cast)| Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Naomi Murdock | |
| Richard Carlson | ... | Henry Murdoch | |
| Lyle Bettger | ... | Dutch Heineman | |
| Marcia Henderson | ... | Joyce Murdoch | |
| Lori Nelson | ... | Lily Murdoch | |
| Maureen O'Sullivan | ... | Sara Harper | |
| Richard Long | ... | Russ Underwood | |
| Billy Gray | ... | Ted Murdoch | |
| Dayton Lummis | ... | Col. Underwood | |
| Lotte Stein | ... | Lena Maria Svenson | |
| Fred Nurney | ... | Hans Peterson | |
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| Donald Kerr | ... | Comic (scenes deleted) | |
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79 min
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Film debut of Sally Fraser.
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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.
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Featured in Acting Normal: Billy Gray on Douglas Sirk's All I Desire (2008) (V)
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Douglas Sirk was the prince of the 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" .