FilmJuiceTo celebrate the release of the Criterion Collection edition of Magnificent Obsession we’ve got TWO Blu-ray copies to give away!
Which Hollywood icon stars in Magnificent Obsession?
A) Humphrey Bogart
B) Kirk Douglas
C) Rock Hudson
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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 a beloved local doctor has a heart attack and dies waiting for the lifesaving device. Thus begins one of the most flamboyant master classes in melodrama from DOUGLAS SIRK (All That Heaven Allows), a delirious Technicolor mix of the sudsy and the spiritual in which Bob and the doctor’s widow, Helen (The Lost Weekend’s JANE WYMAN), find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.
UNITED STATES | 1954 | 108 MINUTES | COLOUR | 2.00:1 | ENGLISH
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
