Rent All I Desire (1953)
3.5 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 16min
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- Synopsis:
- Ten years ago, a turn-of-the-century scandal over a lover forced Naomi Murdoch (Barbara Stanwyck) to desert her husband and their children for a stage career. Now, returning to their small Wisconsin town to see her daughter in a play, she hopes of a reconciliation. Her appearance is a shock. The town is curious but unforgiving, her high school principal husband is involved with one of his teachers, and her children have mixed feelings about her. When an unexpected turn of events leads to more scandal, Naomi's hopes of starting over are dashed - until some surprising changes occur.
- Actors:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Richard Long, Billy Gray, Lotte Stein, Dayton Lummis, Fred Nurney, Donald Kerr
- Directors:
- Douglas Sirk
- Producers:
- Ross Hunter
- Writers:
- James Gunn, Robert Blees, Gina Kaus, Carol Ryrie Brink
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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The Sound of a Shotgun - All I Desire review by CH
Anything with Barbra Stanwyk commands attention, which means that she keeps one busy in seeking out such items at this which, although made in black and white, heralds those red-hued luxuriant small-town melodramas to which the cosmopolitan director Douglas Sirk turned in the Fifties. This one is in fact set in 1910, an era when news of her failure to make it on the Broadway stage would have been less likely to reach the family, and lover, from whom she fled with such hopes. It is a plot as creaky as the one in which her teenage daughter plays at high school - and which she has returned to see.
Ignore any doubts about this - one's own and others'. Such is the way in which Sirk handles it that one is transported from one's own sofa to those on which this brilliant cast wrangle and canoodle.
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