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    Written On The Wind -- (Movie Clip) Welcome To Hadley

    First appearance of oil tycoon Hadley (Robert Keith), atop his tower in the town named after him, with protege Mitch (Rock Hudson), joined soon by his sobered-up son Kyle (Robert Stack), introducing his new wife Lucy (Lauren Bacall), in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind, 1957.

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Written On The Wind -- (Movie Clip) Welcome To...
Oil baron Hadley (Robert Keith), atop his tower in the town...
Written On The Wind -- (Movie Clip) Welcome To Hadley
First appearance of oil tycoon Hadley (Robert Keith), atop his tower in the town named after him, with protege Mitch (Rock Hudson), joined soon by his sobered-up son Kyle (Robert Stack), introducing his new wife Lucy (Lauren Bacall), in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind, 1957.>
Written On The Wind - (Original Trailer)

A family of Texas oil millionaires...
Written On The Wind - (Original Trailer)
A family of Texas oil millionaires explodes into melodrama in director Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind (1956).>
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Right-hand man Mitch (Rock Hudson) has persuaded Lucy...
Written On The Wind -- (Movie Clip) Not Duties, Pleasures
Right-hand man Mitch (Rock Hudson) has persuaded Lucy (Lauren Bacall), secretary in a Manhattan ad agency, to meet his playboy Texas oil-family scion and virtual-brother Kyle (Robert Stack) at "21," early in Douglas Sirk's Written On The Wind, 1957.>
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Dramatic and fancy opening from director Douglas Sirk, Robert Stack as "Kyle" and Lauren Bacall as wife "Lucy" featured, from Written On The Wind, 1957, also starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. >
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