ALL I DESIRE (1953)
DOUGLAS SIRK
Plot
Barbara Stanwyck plays a wayward mother who returns home to a hostile town, marvellous as the struggling actress who yearns for her old life. Though set in the past, the evocation of rural small-town life - a seeming idyllic little world poisoned with gossip, social prejudice, and double standards - isn't all that far from the modern suburbia of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows.