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Magnificent Obsession (DVD, 2009, Criterion Collection) 
Magnificent Obsession (DVD, 2009, Criterion Collection)

 
Magnificent Obsession (DVD, 2009, Criterion Collection)

Leading Role: Jane Wyman,Rock Hudson
Director: Douglas Sirk
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Jan 2009
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Criterion Collection
UPC: 715515034821
Product ID: EPID70984260
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 fantast...
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Movie 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.

Credits
Producer:Ross Hunter
Cast:Agnes Moorehead, Gregg Palmer, Paul Cavanagh

Details
Edition:Criterion Collection

Editorial Reviews
"[A]droitly constructed, with committed performances by the two stars, and gorgeous, shadowy cinematography..." -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly - Tim Purtell (01/16/2009)

"MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION was the first of Sirk's big-budget, Technicolor melodramas for Universal, but he was already working with distancing devices -- action reflected in mirrors or hard surfaces; colors so bright that they seem to detach themselves from the physical world...."
New York Times - Dave Kehr (01/19/2008)

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