One Desire (1955)
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The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. Rock and Baxter move to a small town, with Hudson's younger brother (Barry Curtis) and an orphaned girl (Natalie Wood) in tow. Julie Adams, daughter of the town banker, set her sights on Hudson and tries to win him away from Baxter. Adams dies in a convenient-to-the-plotline fire, but everybody else lives happily ever after. Conrad Richter's novel Tracey Cromwell was the base for this 1890s soap opera, produced by Ross Hunter with a veneer of class that the material itself lacks. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jerry Hopper
Synopsis of One Desire
The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. Rock and Baxter move to a small town, with Hudson's younger brother (Barry Curtis) and an orphaned girl (Natalie Wood) in tow. Julie Adams, daughter of the town banker, set her sights on Hudson and tries to win him away from Baxter. Adams dies in a convenient-to-the-plotline fire, but everybody else lives happily ever after. Conrad Richter's novel Tracey Cromwell was the base for this 1890s soap opera, produced by Ross Hunter with a veneer of class that the material itself lacks. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of One Desire
- Anne Baxter - Tacey Cromwell
- Julie Adams - Judith Watrous
- William Hopper - MacBain
- Barry Curtis - Nugget
- Fay Morley - Flo
- Lynne Millan - Bea
- Howard Wright - Judge Congin
- Joel Allen - Mr. Ribbling
- Robert Hoy - Fireman
- Joseph Mell - Franklin
- Donald Kerr - Miner
- Alan DeWitt - John
- Guy Wilkerson - Marshal Coe
- Forbes Murray - Man at Party
- Paul Levitt - Brogan
- Charles Gray - Vernon's Son
- William Forrest - Mr. Wellington
- Rock Hudson - Clint Saunders
- Natalie Wood - Seely
- Betty Garde - Mrs. O'Dell
- Adrienne Marden - Marjorie Huggins
- Vicki Raaf - Kate
- Smoki Whitfield - Sam
- Edward Earle - Mr. Hathaway
- Edmund Cobb - Driver
- Barbara Knudson - Alice
- Dennis Moore - Miner
- Betty Jane Howarth - May
- Donald Moore - Miner
- Carl Benton Reid - Senator Watrous
- Paul McGuire - Vernon
- Paul Keast - Wyatt
- Terry Frost - Jack
- John Daheim - Fireman
- Director(s):
- Jerry Hopper
- Writer(s):
- Lawrence Roman, Robert Blees
- Producer(s):
- Ross Hunter
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