About this title: This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the first (filmed in 1935) in glossing over the plot holes and logic gaps in the original novel. Rock Hudson plays Bob Merrick, a reckless playboy who is indirectly responsible for the death of a kindly and much-beloved doctor. The dead man's wife, Helen Phillips (Jane Wyman), refuses to accept Bob's apologies. When Helen is accidentally blinded, Bob decides to "do right" by her anonymously, illustrating author Douglas' curious edict that the best sort of good deed is the one ...
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Description: Like New. Video with jacket * like new condition * all videos are checked for authenticity, are shipped in water tight bubble bags* and are are guaranteed for quality and to work properly* buy from professionals. read more
Format: DVD
Studio: Criterion Collection
UPC:715515034821
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Format: DVD
Studio: Criterion Collection
UPC:715515034821
Description: New. 715515034821 Brand new and factory sealed! We sell no bootlegs or imports. Buy with confidence! You WILL receive your item QUICKLY! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 0
Date: 06/30/2009
Description: New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA; Attention UK customers, please use our UK account ImportCDsUK, thank you. read more
Format: VHS
Screen format: Full Screen
Studio: Universal
Date: 2002 est
UPC:096898015134
Description: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger. Fine in fine packaging. Language: English. Run time: 108 mins. Aspect ratio: 4: 3. Originally released: 1954. Fine Private VHS hardly watched in excellent case. Cover as shown. 5 hankie tearjerker. Very romantic score. Superb performances, especially by Wyman & Rush. One of the most tender, romantic and moving movies ever. A Sirk masterpiece. 1 copy read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
Studio: not identified
Date: 2002
UPC:096898015134
Description: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger. New in new packaging. Language: English. Run time: 108 mins. Aspect ratio: 4: 3. Originally released: 1954. New, Mint, Sealed. Tender, touching tearjerker. Well acted 4 hankkie melodrama. Drunken playboy kills man & blinds his wife in car crash. Full of guilt he becomes a doctor in order to restore her sight. She unknowingly falls for him. Rare orignal ed. read more
Format: DVD
Studio: Criterion Collection
Date: 2009-01-20
UPC:715515034821
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Description: Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Greg Palmer. Very good in good packaging. 1954 Run time: 108. read more
Description: BRAND NEW. 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 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 ... read more
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