Douglas Sirk
Director, Actor
Lured (Personal Column) (1947)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn…
- Earlier work in the oeuvre of cult director Douglas Sirk isn’t up there with his later masterworks but is more than just a footnote, with a first…
Shockproof (1949)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Cornel Wilde
- Written by Samuel Fuller. A parole officer falls in love with a beautiful parolee, and tries to keep her away from her gambling ex–boyfriend.…
Has Anyone Seen My Gal? (1952)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari, Piper Laurie…
- Sirk–for–hire musical comedy finds the iconic melodramatist at his most unidentifiable: Coburn stars as an elderly money bags with no…
Douglas Sirk Boxset (1952-1959)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
- Lavish box–set highlighting nine classics from the 'King of Hollywood Melodrama'. Includes the previously unreleased 'No Room for the Groom'…
All I Desire (1953)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck
- Template Sirk melodrama features Barbara Stanwyck as an ambitious stage actress who abandons her husband and family for Broadway, only to return when…
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman
- Douglas Sirk's famously tumultuous melodrama, starring Rock Hudson in his first leading role as a guilt–ridden playboy indirectly responsible…
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead…
- Middle–aged widow Jane Wyman fights for the respect of her family and upscale community when she conducts an affair with her ‘gardener’…
Written On the Wind (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack…
- Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett
- Resolute Sirk melodrama tugs at the heartstrings of a disenchanted family man whose chance encounter with an old–flame compels his children to…
Interlude (1957)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch…
- June Allyson falls for the charms of a married European conductor while being courted by a Munich doctor. One of Sirk's weaker melodramas, this was…