Does it rank up there with All That Heaven Allows or Imitiation of Life? No, not really. It all wraps up too neatly, Lyle Bettger has the charisma of a toilet brush and it's pointlessly set in the early part of the century. However, it's not really a dud, either. It's a tight script, Stanwyck is riveting as always, and Sirk's eye for brilliant framing is hard at work. It makes for a quick, easy watch with some slight subversiveness in its commentary on small town gossip and hypocrisy.

An effective tear-jerker from the master of 'em.

It is only later that Sirk would really master the melodrama, but All I Desire is already very good.

Not bad but kinda silly