Magnificent Obsession (Criterion Collection) (1954) on Blu-ray

Actor: Robert Taylor, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Barbara Rush
Director: Douglas Sirk
Genre: Drama
Year: 1954
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: N/A
Released: 8/20/2019
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: High-definition digital restoration, Audio commentary from 2008, Magnificent Obsession, John M. Stahl’s 1935 adaptation of the same novel, newly restored, From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991), a documentary by Eckhart Schmidt, And more!
Language: English
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

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. 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. TWO BLU RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • High definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Audio commentary from 2008 featuring film scholar Thomas Doherty • Magnificent Obsession, John M. Stahl’s 1935 adaptation of the same novel, newly restored • From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991), a documentary by German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt • Interviews from 2008 with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, in which they pay tribute to Sirk • Theatrical trailer • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien