Magnificent obsession
2009
DVD
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love. His persistence causes another tragedy, and he must remake his life.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604651102
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: Not rated.
Notes:
- Based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
- Booklet features a new essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
- Special features: New, restored, High-Definition digital transfer; audio commentary featuring film scholar Thomas Doherty; Magnificent obsession (1935, 102 min.): a new digital transfer of John M. Stahl's complete earlier version of the film; "Douglas Sirk: from UFA to Hollywood (1991): a rare 80-minute documentary by German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt in which Sirk reflects upon his career; video interviews with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, paying tribute to Sirk; theatrical trailer.
- Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, Milton Carruth ; original music, Frank Skinner.
- Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer, Sara Shane, Paul Cavanagh, Judy Nugent.
- DVD, widescreen (2.00:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 1.0 mono.
- For private home use only.
- Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC1789D
Control Number: 677549
UPC: 715515034821
Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection ; 457.
- The Criterion collection
- The Criterion collection ; 457
Subjects:
- Action and adventure films.
- Douglas, Lloyd C. (Lloyd Cassel), 1877-1951. Magnificent obsession -- .
- Feature films.
- Lifesaving -- Equipment and supplies -- Fiction.
- Men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
- O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948- Magnificent obsessions.
- Persistence -- Fiction.
- Widows -- United States -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Anders, Allison.
- Bigelow, Kathryn.
- Blees, Robert.
- Cavanagh, Paul, 1895-1964.
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Doherty, Thomas Patrick.
- Douglas, Lloyd C. (Lloyd Cassel), 1877-1951. Magnificent obsession.
- Heerman, Victor, 1893-1977.
- Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985.
- Hunter, Ross.
- Kruger, Otto, 1885-1974.
- Mason, Sarah Y., 1896-1980.
- Moorehead, Agnes, 1900-1974.
- Nugent, Judy.
- O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948- Magnificent obsessions.
- Palmer, Gregg, 1927-2015.
- Rush, Barbara, 1927-2024.
- Schmidt, Eckhart, 1938-
- Shane, Sara, 1928-2022.
- Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987.
- Universal-International (Firm)
- Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007.