Written On The Wind (1956) Blu-ray

The quintessential Douglas Sirk melodrama, a lurid family tragedy in luscious Technicolor

Douglas Sirk’s Technicolor expressionism reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes.

Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible secretary (Lauren Bacall) has the misfortune of marrying the clan’s neurotic scion (Robert Stack), it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend (Rock Hudson) that unleashes a maelstrom of angst and fury.

Featuring an unforgettably debauched, Oscar-winning supporting performance by Dorothy Malone and some of Sirk’s most eye-popping mise-en-scène, Written on the Wind is as perverse a family portrait as has ever been splashed across the screen.

Special Edition features

New 2K digital restoration

"Acting for Douglas Sirk," a documentary with Sirk, Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone

New interview about the film and melodrama

And more