Magnificent Obsession (Blu-ray)
The Great Love Story... by the author of "THE ROBE"
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 20, 2019
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead & Otto Kruger | |
Performer: | Paul Cavanagh, Sara Shane & Gregg Palmer | |
Directed by | Douglas Sirk | |
Edited by | Milton Carruth | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Blees & Wells Root | |
Composition by | Frank Skinner | |
Art Direction by | Emrich Nicholson & Bernard Herzbrun | |
Produced by | Ross Hunter | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Metty |
Entertainment Reviews:
An extraordinary film about vision.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A film requiring as many Kleenex as you can spare, this unabashed appeal to the tear ducts does not fail in its efforts.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
Primary credit for mooring the picture to an earthly and earthy plane belongs to the two stars.
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New York Times
No use arguing about this one; every customer evidently considers it either a profound inspirational drama or a rather maudlin soap opera about the golden rule. My own view leans to the latter persuasion...
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Maclean's Magazine
Every step depends on stifled emotions and closely guarded secrets, resulting in a buildup of operatic passion that endows everyday gestures and inflections with grandeur and nobility.
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New Yorker
Rating: B --
It's almost a miracle at how Sirk makes this preposterous melodrama come to life.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Jane Wyman earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination, but it's really Rock Hudson (in a star-making performance) who dominates the film.
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Product Description:
Rock Hudson bursts through the screen as reckless playboy Bob Merrick in Douglas Sirk's MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION. He creams across a lake at 150 miles per hour in a brightly painted speedboat. Merrick's haughty indulgence sets off a fantastically spectacular chain of tragic events that will transform him and all of those around him. When the speedboat jaunt ends in an accident, Merrick must be resuscitated using the town's only life-saving mechanism, and as a consequence, leaving the saintly local surgeon, Dr. Philips, to die of a heart attack at his stately villa across the lake. When Merrick learns of his part in the doctor's death, he makes a half-hearted attempt to square things with the devastated widow, Helen (Jane Wyman). However, his careless ham-fisted apologies accidentally cause an accident that leaves Helen completely blind. Under the sure, visionary hand of master melodramatist Sirk, these sprawling, high-pitched coincidences congeal to create a stunning window into the morals and mysteries of the American family and value system. Merrick's trail towards redemption by way of a mysterious brand of Christian philanthropy engenders the "Magnificent Obsession" of the title, as he embarks on a desperate study of medicine in order to cure Helen's blindness and hopefully atone for a life's worth of sins.
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- Sales Rank: 49,782
- UPC: 715515233613
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