All I Desire DVD

A Film by Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk, the undisputed master of Hollywood melodrama, once again shares his views on the oppressive nature of small-town America in All I Desire.
When the adulterous Naomi Murdock (Barbara Stanwyck in a knock-out performance) returns to the family she abandoned years before, her arrival is rendered all the more difficult by the appearance of her former lover, Dutch, anxious to rekindle the flames of their previous affair. Naomi must endure the bitterness of her oldest daughter and the reluctance of her husband to embrace her return, not to mention the conservative wrath of the gossipy townspeople.
All I Desire comments on the imprisoning nature of provincial America, and the conservative quashing of individuality by its inhabitants.