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Behind The Mirror: A Profile Of Douglas Sirk (1979), a BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with Sirk; Imitation Of Life: On The Films Of Douglas Sirk, a seminal essay by Sirk admirer and filmmaker Rainer Fassbinder, illustrated with rare ephemera; exclusive liner notes by film theorist Laura Mulvey; a stills archive with production photos and vintage lobby cards; original theatrical trailer
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0. Chapters
1. Golden raintree [6:11]
2. Egyptian tomb [4:16]
3. Stoningham Country Club [3:02]
4. Companionship vs. romance [2:59]
5. Glass house/The old mill [7:24]
6. Two invitations [2:21]
7. Walden clambake [9:08]
8. Wedgwood teapot [7:14]
9. Butcher shop [4:43]
10. Father's trophy [6:35]
11. Sara's lovely house [3:46]
12. A good-lookingset of muscles [2:50]
13. Rose window [2:18]
14. Local sensation [3:48]
15. Telephone and telegram [2:31]
16. Silver-tipped spruce [2:57]
17. Television [3:21]
18. Pheasant hunt [3:30]
19. Accidental encounters [2:25]
20. Bedside vigil [4:49]
21. Deer [2:28]
0. A Profile Of Douglas Sirk
1. The German theater [2:45]
2. Schlussakkord [:52]
3. Fleeing Germany [2:32]
4. Early American films [4:09]
5. Magnificent Obsession [2:26]
6. All That Heaven Allows [:31]
7. Captain Lightfoot [:39]
8. Written on the Wind [3:11]
9. The Tarnished Angels [3:26]
10. A Time to Love and a Time to Die [2:27]
11. Imitation of Life [4:35]
12. Life After Hollywood [3:45]
One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson). Sirk builds up sympathy for Cary by showing how empty her life has been since her husband's death, even suggesting that the marriage itself was no picnic. Throwing conventionial behavior to the winds and facing social ostracism, Cary pursues her romance with Ron, who is unjustly perceived as a fortune-hunter by Cary's friends and family--especially her priggish son Ned (William Reynolds). Amusingly, Conrad Nagel was to have had a much larger part as Harvey, an elderly widower who carries a torch for Cary, but his role was trimmed down during previews when audiences disapproved of an implicit romance between a sixtyish man and a fortysomething woman! All That Heaven Allows was remade by unabashed Douglas Sirk admirer Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Ali--Fear Eats the Soul (1974), in which the age gap between hero and heroine was even wider. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide