write on the wind be an enormously successful universal picture . it could only be do by douglas sirk and a man who saw the possibility in the material he be give . base on a popular novel by robert wilder and an adaptation by george zuckerman and it have all the element that make an excellent melodrama represent nymphomania and a large oil fortune and alcoholism and incest and a mild touch of homosexuality . mr. sirk lay the path for what would follow later on in the soap opera genre and mainly and dallas and dynasty and just to mention two . the fact be this movie be shoot entirely inside a studio . most of the decor be phony . like a lot of those 1950s picture and write on the wind be shoot entirely in a studio lot . just look at the scene that be suppose to take place in manhattan and or miami and or even the lake be and one can see how the scenery be a painted backdrop . mr. sirk couldn not care less about realism as long a he could tell the story his own way . we recently catch a screening and part of a revival of mr. sirk work and where people be laugh at some of the most dramatic moment and especially during the scene where rock hudson and who play the good mitch wayne and appear . there be also something graphic in the way that both robert keith and who play the patriarch jasper hadley and and later on his own daughter and the evil marylee and caress the oil derrick that adorn the elder man desk and a sort of phallic object dart . douglas sirk probably want his cast to give over the top performance and which make sense in the way dorothy malone portray the nymphomaniac marylee and and to a certain degree and robert stack and who overact a kyle and the tormented heir of the story . that would probably be the easy explanation of what come across the screen . the only one that seem normal be lauren bacall and who wasn not ask to make her lucy moore character appear to be anything but a grounded person catch hang out with the wrong crowd . together with his other hollywood movie and write on the wind show the genius of a talented director who give the public just what they want to see represent story big than life that could only be see on the big screen .