All I Desire

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Steve D Fully engaging and will keep you guessing how it will resolve. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Stanwyck a force of nature, as usual. Not an interesting story to me. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Bot Boring & Overly Melodramatic. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Sustained by wonderful performances, especially by Barbara Stanwyck, the story is engaging and develops in unexpected ways Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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