write on the wind and direct by douglas sirk and release in 1956 and be like all of sirk mid 50 film pure melodrama . yet it be engross and richly developed melodrama and and sirk trademark lurid colour expressionism and throbbing and barely repressed emotion and symbolism and juxtaposition of the class make this a film to crave . the film open brilliantly and with the four central character and the plot be introduce a the credit be still roll . sirk use a clever flashback structure to take u into his world . robert stack and dorothy malone be magnificent a the two hadley kid and kyle and marylee . he drink and sleep around with woman . she drink and sleep around with men . they both be worth million and thanks to the hadley oil business . hunky and yet poor and mitch wayne ( rock hudson ) be kyle lifelong friend and and marylee dream lover . enter into this sordid mess lucy moore ( lauren bacall ) and a slim and attractive young woman who fall under kyle charm after he pick up a phone and fly her across the countryside one evening . mitch love her too and but kyle win her . they quickly marry and and kyle stop drink . but fate seem to be write on the wind and and it be not long before a conniving marylee ( who will have mitch and marriage or no marriage ) and a secretly smite mitch and the confused lucy and the sad drunk kyle come to blow . malone be just wonderful a marylee hadley and thoroughly deserve her best support actress oscar . she steal every scene she be in . stack be almost just a good and amping up the melodrama and while still maintain subtly and quiet desperation . hudson and bacall be a lot more restrained than those two and yet it be in keep with the character they play . so and what all this melodrama really about it . well and a lot of thing . stack powerful portrait of male inadequacy and fear and for one thing . sirk surround stack with phallic symbol throughout the film note his tiny little gun and the oil derrick and the ultimate phallic symbol and kyle seem inability to conceive child . stack seem to be suffer from a massive male superiority complex and make worse by his father preference for hudson and his sister desire for hudson and and his suspicion that his wife be carry on with hudson . with all this wealth kyle hadley still end up at the wrong end of town and buying cheap corn liquor like a bum . it about impossible dream and and have to let go of them . the river where kyle and marylee and mitch use to play when they be kid be constantly reference throughout the film and symbolise kyle and ( especially ) marylee wish for the innocence and simplicity of youth . in an excellent melodramatic scene and perfectly pull off by malone and marylee stand by the river and imago herself again a a child and with voice over of mitch tell marylee that she will always be his girl . this be where sirk strike a huge emotional chord with the viewer . who hasn not dream about go back to that special place in childhood . who hasn not and at some point and live on a treasured memory . who hasn not want something they couldn not have . and hudson last line of the film ( yes and he get no dialogue in the last 10 or so minute and only close ups ) recollect on how far we have come from the river and marylee . amazing .