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.Two of the prisoners who were chained together, seated in the back, were:Johnny "Joker" Jackson (Tony Curtis).Although the Camerons live in town, their cotton plantation is nearby - a beautiful place where happy slaves work in the fields contentedly picking cotton.Although desperate for a job, he explains cleverly that he is expensive and busy, but then decides to take the writing job and accepts her assignment.Enos urged Annie to "quit now" and then told her that two kids had been brutally murdered there in 1958, a young boy had drowned there in 1957 (both unsolved cases), and there were unexplained fires.