Magnificent Obsession [Criterion] (Blu-ray)

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Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Rating: Not Rated
Format: Blu-ray
Release Date: 08/20/2019
Label: Criterion Collection
Category: Classics, Criterion, Drama

Magnificent Obsession [Criterion] (BLU)

Douglas Sirk

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Synopsis

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick 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.

Product Details

Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Format: Color, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 2.00.1
Number of Discs: 2
Rating: Not Rated
Label: Criterion Collection
Release Date: 08/20/2019
Run Time: 108 minutes
Catalogue #: 3056

Special Features

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 German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt
Interviews from 2008 with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, in which they pay tribute to Sirk
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien