Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 26, 1956

All That Heaven Allows (Universal-International) is what Hollywood knows as a "woman's picture." The characters talk Ladies' Home Journalese, and the screen glows like a page of House Beautiful. The moviegoer often has the sensation :hat he is drowning in a sea of melted Dutter, with nothing to hang on to but the cliches that float past.

Gary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a smalltown widow with A Woman's Problem: after the late Fred, can there ever be Anybody Else? And there are The Children to be considered. Her boy and girl are away at school when Gary meets A

Man (Rock Hudson). The...

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