In early 1900s, an Oklahoma gambler-casino dealer teams-up with a saloon dancer and together they seek a new life in a Colorado mining town where their relationship and respectability are tested.
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| Anne Baxter | ... | Tacey Cromwell | |
| Rock Hudson | ... | Clint Saunders | |
| Julie Adams | ... | Judith Watrous | |
| Carl Benton Reid | ... | Sen. Kenneth A. Watrous | |
| Natalie Wood | ... | Seely Dowder | |
| William Hopper | ... | 'Mac' MacBain | |
| Betty Garde | ... | Mrs. O'Dell | |
| Barry Curtis | ... | Nugget Saunders | |
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Adrienne Marden | ... | Marjorie Huggins |
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Fay Morley | ... | Flo |
| Vici Raaf | ... | Kate | |
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Lynn Millan | ... | Bea |
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Smoki Whitfield | ... | Sam |
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Howard Wright | ... | Judge Congin |
| Edward Earle | ... | Mr. Hathaway | |
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Circa 1900, runaway boy Nugget arrives in an Oklahoma boom town to find his brother...who's a dealer in the casino section of a palatial bawdy house, and lover of the madam, Tacey Cromwell. Together, Nugget, Clint, and Tacey seek respectability in a Colorado mining town. Clint finds work at the town's new bank, while Tacey adopts another orphan, Seely. But Clint is pursued by banker's daughter Judith Watrous, who's seemingly sweet but takes ruthless steps to eliminate competition. Result for Tacey: heartbreak, renunciation, and tears a-plenty. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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2 September 1955 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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In thinking over the title One Desire I've concluded it refers to the One Desire that Anne Baxter and Julie Adams have for Rock Hudson. Each wants the whole Rock and not just a piece of it.
Baxter and Hudson play a pair of saloon denizens. She's a house madam and he's a gambler by trade. Both decide they can do much better, especially after Hudson's little brother Barry Curtis arrives with nowhere else to go. Later on the two take in Natalie Wood an orphan girl whose father is killed in a mining accident.
This nice jerry built family is interrupted when Adams who is the spoiled daughter of a Senator and bank president Carl Benton Reid sets her cap for Hudson. She connives to get the kids taken from Baxter as an unfit parent and Hudson being no match for her wiles marries her and Baxter goes back to her old trade.
The surprise here is Julie Adams who usually plays nice women. This was a bit of offbeat casting for her, but she pulls it off. She's as manipulative as Eve Harrington.
An interesting tale, the women are fine, I could not quite grasp Hudson's character as so naive especially with his background as a gambler. You're supposed to learn to read people in that trade.