Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) (1974) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder transposes All That Heaven Allows into contemporary Germany with Rock Hudson's Thoreau-esque man of the soil recast as a Moroccan "guest worker". On arrival in the United States he soon changed his German name. Tarantino paid homage to Sirk and his melodramatic style in Pulp Fiction when character Vincent Vega at a '50s-themed restaurant orders the "Douglas Sirk steak" cooked "bloody as hell.