" The war film often showed graphic violence and involved dozens of uses of the F-word and a few scenes of pot-smoking to express how the Vietnam War was not really aRambo-style adventure or noble mission.BackgroundWritten on the Wind(1956) is generally regarded as the best of director Douglas Sirk""s 1950s lush, vibrantly colorful melodramatic masterpieces.Although believing that she had been promised a house of her own, Anna was shocked when the intimidating and stern Kralahome informed her that he had come to escort them to their living quarters in the Royal Palace.To spend it sleeping seems a waste." The camera pulls back from a close-up of her face to a long shot.She pushes aside the large windows of the constraining interior of her bedroom and climbs out to the battlements.