Magnificent Obsession

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Magnificent Obsession (1954)

NR 08/07/1954 (US) Drama, Romance 1h 48m

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This was the moment unashamed... when this man and this woman felt the first ecstasy of their Magnificent Obsession

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Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.

Douglas Sirk

Director
Lloyd C. Douglas

Novel
Robert Blees

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Jane Wyman

Helen Phillips
Rock Hudson

Bob Merrick
Barbara Rush

Joyce Phillips
Agnes Moorehead

Nancy Ashford
Otto Kruger

Edward Randolph
Gregg Palmer

Tom Masterson
Paul Cavanagh

Dr. Henry Giraud
Sara Shane

Valerie Daniels
Richard H. Cutting

Dr. Derwin Dodge
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on November 25, 2019

Doc Rock and the playboy redemption.

Magnificent Obsession is adapted from a novel by Lloyd C Douglas, and it had been previously filmed back in 1935 with Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor in the leads. Here the piece is directed by melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk and features Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson as the emotionally charged leads. The story revolves around Bob Merrick (Hudson), a playboy who is inadvertently responsible for the death of Helen Phillips' (Wyman) husband. As he starts to find a soul in amongst his playboy image, he desperately wants to make peace with Helen, but during his ef... read the rest.

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