Melodrama is never mellow, and Douglas Sirk makes that very clear. In this week’s episode, the FilmBabble gentlemen watch a proper technicolor tearjerker. Surrender to it, you know you want to…

Intro/outro music: Handel’s Harp Concerto, 3rd Movement performed by Josh Layne (Harpist in the Wild)

IMITATION OF LIFE (1959), USA, written by Eleanore Griffin and Allan Scott, directed by Douglas Sirk, cinematography by Russell Metty, featuring Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, and John Gavin.