Agnes Moorehead, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer
A man responsible for killing a revered doctor and blinding the latter's wife in a car accident takes it upon himself to study medicine and devote his life to finding a cure for the woman's blindness-...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 20, 2009
Stats: 78 reviews
Share the plot of Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession" to a loved one and they'll ask what soap opera you're referencing. The plot is an absurd folly that'll ask you to suspend more disbelief than any "Star Wars" flick. It contains simultaneous life-threatening injuries on eith...( read more)
I wouldn't call Magnificent Obsession Douglas Sirk's best movie but it's still good. Like any other Sirk movie, it's pungent with melodrama and you'll often ask yourself if people really talk like this, even in the 50s. But the exaggerated imagery (again, like any other Sirk movi...( read more)
This is a wonderful movie of the fifties, with a cast of stars that in today?s film world would be unheard off. The budget to get these stars together today would make anyone faint. Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, and Agnes Moorehead. I grew up thinking Agnes Moorehead was a witches mot...( read more)
Candy coloured melodrama which at the end of the day is actually rather good!
Expressive colours, Incredible emotions, dramatic twists. Not only is this film just beautifully shot but running through all this glamor is (biting?) social commentary.
Plus Jane Wyman is one of the few people that really are cute and a button and Agnes Moorehead brings he engro...( read more)
It's certainly high on melodrama and tends to by a bit cornball and over the top, but it certainly is well produced and well acted by Jane Wyman and Agnes Moorehead . Rock Hudson however is poor. First rate cinematography, art direction and costumes. The score is a little overbea...( read more)
Another strong story that you can't help but get caught up in. It's been imitated a dozen times, especially in the TV soaps but somehow Sirk always manages to elevate his subject matter by making them slightly more subversive.
Ok, love over the top type hype...Rock Hudson always makes a movie an escape, a special treat and thick with chemistry in his love interest! Love story wrapped around a sermon of sorts...The name of the movie caught me at first and seeing that it was Rock Hudson, I had to watch. ...( read more)
i watched this after hearing it mentioned in an interview by quentin tarantino of all people. not that i was expecting this to be the pulp fiction of the 50's, but i was surprised by the soap opera-ish melodrama. the acting is great and the story is well-told albeit silly at time...( read more)
Favorite Love Story. Theam is my favorite music ever written. Chopan Itude in E Major
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