Reckless playboy bob merrick rock hudson, in his breakthrough role crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town's only resuscitator at the very moment that a beloved local doctor has a heart attack and dies waiting for the lifesaving device'. '.strtoupper('t')hus begins one of the most flamboyant master classes in melodrama from douglas sirk all that heaven allows, a delirious technicolor mix of the sudsy and thespiritual in which bob and the doctor's widow, helen the lost weekend's jane wyman, find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.high definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackaudio commentary from 2008 featuring film scholarthomas dohertymagnificent obsession, john m'. '.strtoupper('s')tahl's 1935 adaptation of the same novel, newly restoredfrom ufa to hollywood douglas sirk remembers 1991, a documentary by eckhart schmidtinterview from 2009 with screenwriter robert bleesinterviews from 2008 with filmmakers allison anders and kathryn bigelow, in which they pay tribute to director douglas sirktrailerplus an essay by critic geoffrey o'brien