one thing about hollywood and someone have a success and it always rush to be copy . and another thing be that player give some of their best performance away from their home studio . rock hudson get such accolade for his performance in the texas base film giant that universal executive must have think and let quick get him into another modern texas setting . similarly robert stack get great review for the high and the mighty a the pilot who be crack under the strain of fly a damage aircraft that it be natural to give him another crack up role . both of these end be achieve in write on the wind . before hudson be the big ranch owner and now he the son of a hunting companion of robert stack father who take hudson under his wing . in other word the james dean part without the james dean racism from giant . lauren bacall be the executive secretary of an advertising agency that stack hadley oil company use . hudson like her and but she dazzle by stack million and when he woo a girl he get the mean to really pursue a campaign . she marry stack . and last but not least in the mix we have dorothy malone who stack amoral sister who have a yen for rock and but rock ain not about to get tangle up with this wild child . dorothy malone spend over 10 year in a whole bunch of colorless film heroine role before land this gem . she get a best supporting actress award for her part a marilee hadley and it be well deserve . if you like splashy technicolor fifty soap opera than this be the film for you .