Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)

[pro-bassoonist]

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Just released in Italy. Magnificent Obsession directed by Douglas Sirk.

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough role) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town's only resuscitato - at the very moment that beloved local Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies waiting for the life-saving 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 to one another amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.

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[Akijama]

Good news Hopefully,more Sirk will follow.

[Arkadin]

any reviews of this?

[djvaso]

Not a review but a post on a certain Italian forum:

buon bd per questo classico melo' anni 50...resa simile a "la lunga estate calda"...grana intatta...momenti ottimi e altri meno...ma in generale buono.extra (uno)interessante con un documentario sul genere melo'

[Arkadin]

thanks for that.