Written on the Wind (1956)

Academy Awards, USA 1957

Won Oscar	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Dorothy Malone
Nominated Oscar	Best Actor in a Supporting Role Robert Stack
	Best Music, Original Song Victor Young (music) Sammy Cahn (lyrics) For the song "Written on the Wind". Victor Young's nomination was posthumous.

Universal-International
Directed by Douglas Sirk
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Alcoholic playboy Robert Stack, son of a Texas oil baron, falls in love with company secretary Lauren Bacall. He vows to change his ways, if she will only marry him, preferably on their first date. His best friend Rock Hudson, a poor geologist, is also in love with Bacall, but she succumbs to the wealth and persistence of Stack before he can do anything about it. He sobers up for a year, but all of that changes when his doctor tells him he is unable to have children. He falls into a depression and goes on drunken rampages. Bacall gets pregnant anyway, leading to suspect her and Hudson of having an affair. Meanwhile, Rock is pursued by bad girl Dorothy Malone, Stack's sister, even though he has no feelings for her beyond friendship. Melodrama elevated to high art, lushly photographed in Technicolor. Malone got the Oscar in a flashy role, but Stack gives the more impressive performance.