But it’s hard to see how anyone could miss the harsh lesson of “All That Heaven Allows,” his 1955 weepie about the May-December romance between a well-off widow (Jane Wyman) and a much ...

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman (1955, Criterion, 89 mins., unrated, $39.95, new to DVD) WRITTEN ON THE WIND Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall (1956, Criterion, 99 mins., unrated ...

We all share the same fate.

“All That Heaven Allows” (1955) is the ultimate expression of Sirk’s worldview. Widow Jane Wyman finds happiness in the arms of much-younger gardener Rock Hudson. But that bliss is ...

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her ...

Here, Sirk and cinematographer Russell Metty use Alexander Golitzen and Eric Oborn's meticulously decorated sets to trap Jane Wyman in the apparently ... solitude and the all-embracing ...

“All That Heaven Allows,” which I discuss in the clip above, is one of the great films that the German-born director Douglas Sirk made in Hollywood. He directed religious dramas, war films ...

CAST: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson. DIR: Douglas Sirk (1955) A woman falls in love with her much younger gardener, but town gossip and the wrath of her children mar their romance. CAST: Jane Wyman ...