Release Date: August 20, 2019
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Director: Douglas Sirk
Writers: Lloyd C. Douglas, Robert Blees, Wells Root, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Barbara Rush
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough role) 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. 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 amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Prices and Links:
Criterion: $31.96
Amazon: N/A
Director: Douglas Sirk
Writers: Lloyd C. Douglas, Robert Blees, Wells Root, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Barbara Rush
- United States
- 1954
- 108 minutes
- Color
- 2.00:1
- English
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough role) 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. 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 amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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
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