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All I Desire

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An actress (Barbara Stanwyck) comes home to the husband (Richard Carlson) and children she abandoned years before.
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Ian Thomas Malone ianthomasmalone.com 04/25/2023
All I Desire could have been a damning indictment on the forced idealism of suburbia, instead conforming to a 1950s audience who weren’t ready to see the dream of the middle class crushed before their eyes. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 08/29/2020
3/4
Most certainly one of Douglas Sirk's lesser movies, All I Desire lacks some of the heart-rending visual flourishes of his masterworks, but it nonetheless remains a pretty solid piece of soap. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Seanax.com 04/26/2010
The dark corners in [Douglas] Sirk's America are first explored in All I Desire... Go to Full Review
Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile 08/23/2008
Sustained by wonderful performances, especially by Barbara Stanwyck, the story is engaging and develops in unexpected ways Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 03/07/2007
B
All the flaws cannot be attributed to Sirk, who does fine work slicing up small-town America's bourgeois life. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/30/2005
3/5
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Steve D 06/25/2023 Fully engaging and will keep you guessing how it will resolve. See more 10/14/2017 Stanwyck a force of nature, as usual. Not an interesting story to me. See more 08/15/2017 Not one of Stanwyck's best, though she gives a good performance. Not much of a script to work with. Wooden acting by the "bad guy" of the piece. Predictable. See more 11/13/2014 Bot Boring & Overly Melodramatic. See more 10/05/2013 Here's Barbara Stanwyck in a Douglas Sirk film just before he started his run of masterworks (Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, Imitation of Life, etc.). She is the only reason to watch this film (but always a good reason), as the rest of the cast, apart from Lena the cook (played by Lotte Stein), is rather unexceptional. Sirk is fixated, as usual, on people's concerns for what others think and how that can ruin lives -- this time at the turn of the 20th century in small town Wisconsin. Stanwyck, who earlier left her family for an acting career -- I mean left her husband and small children -- returns by surprise 12 or 13 years later. Pure melodrama but only 79 minutes and black and white. Stanwyck was luckier to be paired with Fred MacMurray in the later Sirk outing, There's Always Tomorrow. See more 03/19/2013 Sustained by wonderful performances, especially by Barbara Stanwyck, the story is engaging and develops in unexpected ways See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis An actress (Barbara Stanwyck) comes home to the husband (Richard Carlson) and children she abandoned years before.
Director
Douglas Sirk
Producer
Ross Hunter
Screenwriter
James Gunn, Robert Blees
Production Co
Universal International Pictures
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Jul 13, 2015
Runtime
1h 19m
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