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                        Magnificent Obsession (1954)
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STARS...........: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
DIRECTOR........: Douglas Sirk
WRITERS.........: Robert Blees
GENRE...........: Drama, Romance
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047203
RUNTIME.........: 1h 47mn
SIZE............: 5.49 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x960
ASPECT RATIO....: 2:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English AAC 1.0 200kbps
AUDIO2..........: Commentary with film scholar Thomas Doherty
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2021-02-28


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 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 amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.


• 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 Eckhart Schmidt

• Interview from 2009 with screenwriter Robert Blees

• Interviews from 2008 with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow

• Trailer