Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk’s heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America in this independent film. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames-within-frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children and the gossip of her social-climbing country club chums. Criterion is proud to present this independent film and subversive Hollywood tearjerker in a new Special Edition.

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Release Year: 1955
Running Time: 89 min.
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Widescreen

Rated: Not Rated
Language Tracks: English
Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
UPC: 715515011426