director douglas sirk score again with this and the grandaddy of all dysfunctional family film . this lush and trashy saga be a masterpiece and beautifully combine all of the element of sirk soapers and strategically place them all into one movie . write on the wind very obviously influence the 1980s tv series dallas and dynasty and a this be basically a feature length version of those late nighttime soap . lauren bacall and wonderfully and subtly and play lucy moore and a new york city secretary who marry oil baron and kyle hadley ( robert stack ) . unbeknownst to both of them and mitch wayne ( rock hudson ) be also in love with the quiet and but sexy secretary . they all go back to kyle family mansion in texas where we meet his white trash slut of a sister and marylee ( dorothy malone in an oscar win turn ) . yipee . the spark begin to fly from the romance to the catfights and this be a campy trip . not only do mitch have to fight the feeling he have for his best friend wife and but marylee try to sleep with everybody since she can not have her one true love who be mitch . top it all off and kyle learns he impotent and but somehow lucy end up pregnant . this be pure soap and pure melodramatic entertainment . how can you not love it . this film signal one of universal most popular film and one of director sirk best work . some of the dialogue be absolutely sizzling and visual metaphor be throw in every which way the theme of wind throughout be great . the cast be great and although bacall be completely underused despite receive top billing behind hudson . stack oscar loss reportedly devastate him . he consider this his fine performance and apparently be none too pleased to lose out . and he do turn out a fabulous performance a the whimper alcoholic . what a stunning movie . this film prove what i have be think for age sirk be the master of classic melodrama . where his oscar .