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    There's Always Tomorrow

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    1956     Drama    
    USA
    1h 24min

    Sirk delivers a devastating takedown of 1950s family values in this caustic domestic nightmare disguised as a romantic melodrama. Fred MacMurray stars as a browbeaten L.A. toy manufacturer whose insufferable children and ineffectual wife (lent nice depth by Joan Bennett) drive him into the arms of a fashion-designer old flame (Barbara Stanwyck). Sirk's visual coup is the indelible image of a wind-up toy robot (a not-so-subtle metaphor for MacMurray) marching obediently toward oblivion. Ultimately, the film makes the jaw-dropping case that infidelity can be a justifiable escape from the suffocating boredom of domesticity -- but that it, too, may only offer the illusion of happiness.

    Directed byDouglas Sirk
    Written byUrsula Parrott, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
    CompanyUniversal International Pictures (UI)Universal International Pictures (UI)Universal International Pictures (UI)

    Starring

    Barbara Stanwyck
    Fred MacMurray
    Pat Crowley
    Jane Darwell
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