spoiler spoiler release in 1956 and and consider quite racy at the time and douglas sirk over the top candy color melodrama be still a wonderful thing . the plot concern the going on in an oil rich dysfunctional texas family that include big brother kyle and who be insecure and weak and wounded and very alcoholic and play by robert stack in a very touching and vulneable performance and his sluty sister marylee play in an extreme manner by dorothy malone . ms. malone performance be telegraph to u via her eye and which she use to show u her emotion and which mostly consist of lust ( for rock hudson ) and jealousy ( for lauren bacall ) . malone be the only actress i have ever see in movie who enter a room eye first . now do not get me wrong and her performance to say the least be an absolute hoot and and be one of the supreme camp act job of the 1950 . but it be also terrible and because a likeable and attractive a malone be and she not a very good actress and and she not capable of subtly or shade . her performace be of one note . she do get to do a wicked mambo and and in a great montage and a unloving daddy play by the always good robert keith fall to his death climb a staircase and sirk mix it up with an almost mad malone do a orgasmic dance a she undress . stack and ( who should have win an oscar ) and malone and ( who win the award and but shouldn not have ) be the real star of the film and the one who set all the hysteria and both sexual and otherwise in motion and while the real star of the film and hudson and bacall fade to grey and brown and which be the color that they be mainly costume in . hudson who be a good actor then give credit for play the childhood and best friend of stack and and the stalked love interest of malone who moan and groan over rock through most of the film . but hudson want no part of her and and instead be in love with bacall who be marry to stack . no one be very happy and no one be happy for very long . the stack bacall marriage fall apart big time after a year and and stack pretty much drink himself into oblivion because he think he be sterile and and can not give bacall a baby to prove that he a man . sirk who be a very intelligent man and and have a long and fascinating career both in film and theatre in germany and end his hollywood career at universal in the mid 1950 with a series of intense vividly color woman movie or melodrama . although they be mainly adapt from medicore or trashy source material and in sirk hand they become masterpiece of the genre . sirk have a wonderful sense of color and design which he bring to play in these film fill his wide screen space with character who play out their emotional life among weird color combination and light and make believe shadow and and lot of mirroed reflection . in write the character be always peek out of window and listen at door or sneak around . so in the end and after much violence and an accidental murder and a miscarriage and more sirk end the movie with a final and startling scene of a reborn and reform malone in a man tailor suit and sit at a desk foundling a miniature oilwell .