WRITTEN ON THE WIND
(Universal-International) R: 16 years and over [DOROTHY MALONE’S Oscar-best supporting actress-persuaded me to see Written on the Wind in Wellington after I’d skipped it in Auckland a few weeks before. I was right the first time. Miss Malone and Robert Stack, as the two wild children of an oil king who play merry hell with a couple of people (Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson) who get involved with them, might have been worth seeing in a different context or if the film had spent some time developing their characters instead of throwing them at us. They try hard enough, but they haven’t a chance really, for this is melodrama all the way, slick, glossy, technically competent, but above all, pretentious and shallow.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 923, 18 April 1957, Page 26
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126WRITTEN ON THE WIND New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 923, 18 April 1957, Page 26
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