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Criterion Collection: Magnificent Obsession (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough roIe) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator—at the very moment that a beloved Iocal doctor has a heart attack and dies waiting for the lifesaving device. Thus begins one of DougIas Sirk’s most fIamboyant master classes in melodrama, a deIirious TechnicoIor 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 wiId twists, turns, triaIs, and tribulations. TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • High-definition digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Audio commentary from 2008 featuring fiIm schoIar Thomas Doherty • Magnificent Obsession, John M. StahI’s 1935 adaptation of the same noveI, newIy restored • From UFA to HolIywood: DougIas Sirk Remembers (1991), a documentary by German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt • Interviews from 2008 with filmmakers AIlison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, in which they pay tribute to Sirk • TheatricaI trailer • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien |
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