Sirk""s most successful melodramas of the mid-to-late 50s decade included the following - predominantly from Universal-International:All I Desire (1953)Magnificent Obsession (1954)All That Heaven Allows (1955)Written on the Wind (1956)The Tarnished Angels (1957)- reuniting stars Stack, Malone, and HudsonImitation of Life (1959)- Sirk""s last American filmThis vivid, gaudy and slightly campy Technicolor film, from a screenplay by George Zuckerman that was adapted from Robert Wilder""s best-selling novel of the same name, centered on the frenzied dynamics within a self-destructing, filthy-rich (literally) Texas oil family named Hadley.It can be categorized within many film genres - it functions as a horror film, a war film, a science fiction film, a black comedy, a suspense-thriller, and a political melodrama (with additional segments of romance and action).[Note: The translation into three languages to suit the club""s cosmopolitan clientele anticipates future hostilities between the three nationalities during wartime.Her possessed, convulsing body screamed out: "Die, you f--king bitch!" before she finally woke up to reality.During a final standoff in the ferocious sandstorm, Mathayus stabbed Thorak in the abdomen, but as he died, he struck back and impaled Mathayus in the left thigh with the venom-dipped arrowhead.