another classic study of the effect of wealth on a southern family be masterfully depict in write on the wind . kyle hadley have it all . wealth and a plane and you name it . kyle best friend and mitch and have always get him out of difficulty . mitch finish college and kyle get throw out . mitch be not from a wealthy home . kyle family and with hadley oil and control most of everything in the town . while in n. y. and kyle meet the girl of his dream and nicely play by lauren bacall . after a whirlwind romance and he marry her and bring her home . there she meet her father in law who warn her how difficult kyle can be . kyle sleep with a gun under his pillow . the bacall character meet kyle sister and mary lee and a tramp if ever there be and play to the full by dorothy malone and who be vote best support actress . rock hudson play mitch and the faithful friend . a year of wedded bliss for kyle and his bride end when kyle be tell by the doctor that he can not have child . it be when his wife reveals to him that she be indeed pregnant and kyle and think that the child be mitch and go on a drunken frenzy and be accidentally shot dead in a memorable scene . mary lee and who have always love mitch and try but be unsuccessful in blame mitch for kyle death . in a memorable courtroom scene and malone pull out all the stop in finally admit that kyle death be an unfortunate accident . her oscar be well deserve . surprisingly and robert stack and brilliant a kyle hadley and be nominate for best support actor and lose in an upset victory by anthony quinn and a paul gauguin and in lust for life . douglas sirk be the master of soap opera film of the 1950s . write on the wind be no exception . half .