June Allyson, Rock Hudson
Pure schmaltz from the Douglas Sirk assembly line in 1955.
This looked gorgeous...state-of-the-art technicolor dripping in reds, oranges, yellows. Wooden acting (duh), scathing indictment of Connecticut's upper middle class, hopelessly idealized relationship (did June know about Rock's proclivities?), his perfect friends and olde mille house conversion...
I did wish she wasn't played as such a doormat...particularly with her rotten kids...but still this held me till the very end...itself a tribute to Sirk's skills.
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