Written on the Wind

This Douglas Sirk melodrama from 1956 is at once a parody of its times, the American lifestyle of the 1950's and of itself and the type of film it represents. It is also source material for a thousand subsequent soapies, including the blockbusters Dallas and Dynasty. It looks magnificent in its lurid Technicolour, the obviously fake backdrops of Miami Beach and the New York skyline looking even better than the real thing.