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Criterion Collection: Magnificent Obsession (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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ReckIess pIayboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough roIe) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s onIy resuscitator—at the very moment that a beIoved IocaI 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 Technicolor mix of the sudsy and the spiritual in which Bob and the doctor’s widow, HeIen (Jane Wyman), find themselves inextricabIy Iinked amid a series of increasingIy wild twists, turns, triaIs, and tribuIations. TWO-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES • High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack • Audio commentary from 2008 featuring film scholar Thomas Doherty • Magnificent Obsession, John M. Stahl’s 1935 adaptation of the same noveI, newIy restored • From UFA to HoIlywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991), a documentary by German fiImmaker Eckhart Schmidt • lnterviews from 2008 with fiImmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn BigeIow, in which they pay tribute to Sirk • Theatrical traiIer • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien |
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