Magnificent Obsession (Criterion Collection) (1954) On DVD

Actor:           Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Barbara Rush
Director:      Douglas Sirk
Genre:          Drama
Year:             1954
Studio:          Criterion Collection
Length :        108
Released:    January 20, 2009
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:       DVD
Misc:            Color
Language:   English
Subtitles:    N/A

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 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 to one another 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.