Magnificent Obsession (1954)

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category: movies > dvds

director: Douglas Sirk

studio: Criterion Collection

year: 1954

country: United States

format: 16 X 9 wide screen

number of discs: 2

movie length: 108 minutes

region: 1

cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Krüger, Gregg Palmer, Sara Shane, Paul Cavanagh, Judy Nugent

tags: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Krüger, Gregg Palmer, Sara Shane, Paul Cavanagh, Judy Nugent

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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 beloved local Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies waiting for the life-saving device. Thus begins one of Douglas Sirk's most flamboyant master classes in melodrama, a delirious Technicolor mix of the sudsy and the spiritual in which Bob and the doctor's widow, Helen (Jane Wyman), find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations. For this release, Criterion also presents John M. Stahl's 1935 film version of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.