
Premiere
3
Jul1953
Studio
About
Synopsis
"All I Desire" (1953) — watch online on iFILM, a domestic melodrama from Douglas Sirk with Barbara Stanwyck at her most guarded.
Naomi Murdoch walked out on her Wisconsin family ten years ago without a word. Now her daughter writes asking her to come back for a school play. Naomi arrives — and every buried grudge and old secret surfaces with her. The man she left for is still around. So is the husband who never fully forgave. Sirk builds the pressure slowly beneath an immaculate surface of small-town routine.
Stanwyck doesn't play Naomi as victim or villain — just a woman accounting for a choice she made and would probably make again. Stream "All I Desire" (1953) online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring

Barbara Stanwyck
Naomi Murdoch

Richard Carlson
Henry Murdoch

Lyle Bettger
Dutch Heineman

Marcia Henderson
Joyce Murdoch

Lori Nelson
Lily Murdoch

Maureen O'Sullivan
Sara Harper

Richard Long
Russ Underwood

Billy Gray
Ted Murdoch

Lotte Stein
Lena Maria Svensen

Dayton Lummis
Colonel Underwood

Fred Nurney
Hans Peterson

Sally Fraser
Daughter in Auditorium

Brett Halsey
Chuck

Stuart Whitman
Dick, in play

Guy Williams
Party guest

Guy Wilkerson
Clem

Douglas Sirk
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