The breakthrough film which launched Douglas Sirk's Hollywood melodrama era and also Rock Hudsons career.

The breakthrough film which launched Douglas Sirk's Hollywood melodrama era and also Rock Hudsons career. Sirk didn't want to make the film because it has a slightly daft storyline and a script he thought was beneath him (it's about a rich man trying to reach spiritual fulfillment whilst winning a woman whose blindness and widowhood he helped bring about). Don't let any of that put you off, if your heart doesn't melt watching this film it's because you dont have one.