All That Heaven Allows
- Jane Wyman: Cary Scott
- Rock Hudson: Ron Kirby
- Agnes Moorehead: Sarah Warren
- Conrad Nagel: Harvey
- Gloria Talbott: Kay Scott
- William Reynolds: Ned Scott
- Virginia Grey: Alida Anderson
- Charles Drake: Mick Anderson
- Hayden Rorke: Dr. Hennessy
What the sky is allowed an American melodrama of Douglas Sirk from the year 1955. It is based on the novel All That Heaven Allows by Edna and Harry Lee.
Action
The widow Cary Scott for some time supported himself in their grief. She has friends, especially Sarah Warren, and an elderly entertainment partner, but love seems to have disappeared from their lives. Her only consolation is her two children studying already, the precocious Kay and conventional Ned. That changes by Ron Kirby, who cares for the trees of Carys garden and crops. He is younger than she is and does not belong as a gardener and nursery owner in their social class. Ron's friends is simple, natural and nature-loving; there Thoreau is read and celebrated in a warm friendliness.
Cary falls in love with Ron and he was in it. Ron makes her to marry him and begins to develop an old mill that belongs to him and the Cary really liked. But Cary's attempt to engage Ron in their lives, fails: The Country Club is blasphemed on the mesalliance Cary is disparagingly treated like a loose woman, and her two children say away from her. This pressure can not withstand Cary. It tells Kay and Ned that she would never again see Ron.
But then she realizes that their children do not appreciate their sacrifice, that you care nothing about the recognition of the country clubs and that she loves Ron unchanged. After she visits her physician because of persistent headaches, are you talking about this to the conscience, because they turn away from life. Then she goes to Ron's house, who was with a friend on the hunt. But Cary leaves the courage and she wants to go away again with her car. At that moment, Ron returns, wants to her - and crashes it down a slope. As you Cary informed about Ron's accident, she seeks the unconscious immediately. When he opens his eyes and wonder, questioning says her name, she replied that she had now come home for good.
Effect
The film anticipates mercilessly with the Company in the 1950s in America, by describing it as gossipy, arrogant, materialistic and bitchy. As a counterpart to her, the nature-loving Friends of Ron faced, is read in the Walden by Thoreau. The film received no awards, but because of its captured in stunningly beautiful images subversive message of a model of Douglas Sirk's Championship, nevertheless penetrate regardless of the then existing studio productions pressure to adapt to the core of things, and to reinforce this by ironic mutations yet - how and Others. the happy ending where a fallow deer in looking at the last setting through a snow- fogged window. Since the 1970s, the film ( " Far From Heaven " ) belongs together with other Sirk melodramas of the great examples of such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodovar, Quentin Tarantino and Todd Haynes.