CFF: All That Heaven Allows
U 89 mins
U 89 mins
USA, 1955, 89 mins.
DIRECTOR: Douglas Sirk
WITH: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a wealthy widow and a respected member of New England’s tight-knit country club society.
When she falls in love with Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), a handsome and much younger gardener, their relationship scandalises her community.
Their romance defies the rigid social codes of 1950s middle-class America, as scandal, family alienation and prejudice threaten to pull them apart.
Douglas Sirk’s timeless melodrama is a Technicolor masterpiece, featuring career-best performances from Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson.
It stands as a landmark of cinematic storytelling—capturing both the suffocating comfort of conformity and the radiant power of forbidden desire.
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