One Desire (1955)

Directed by

Jerry Hopper

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In early 1900s Oklahoma during an oil boom, a gambling house owner and a card dealer turned bank president are torn apart by a woman who comes between them.

romanticdramaticperiodtenseemotionalstormysoapy

What happens

One Desire is a 1955 Technicolor drama romance film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Anne Baxter, Julia Adams and Rock Hudson. Described as a "rugged story of oil-boom Oklahoma in the early 1900s", it was adapted from Conrad Richter's best-selling 1942 novel Tacey Cromwell. Baxter portrays a gambling house owner, Hudson a card dealer turned bank president and Adams the woman who comes between them. A young Natalie Wood is also in a featured role. Although the music is generally by Frank Skinner, the film features a Henry Mancini song sung by Gene Boyd and backed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra which was uncredited to Mancini. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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