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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Magnificent obsession (Motion picture : 1954)

Title:

Magnificent obsession / Universal International presents ; produced by Ross Hunter ; screenplay by Robert Blees ; adaptation by Wells Root ; directed by Douglas Sirk.

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2008]

Description:

2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

videodisc

NTSC

video file DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention and the use of 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. Bob and the doctor's widow, Helen, find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.--Container.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 457

Criterion collection ; 457.

Subjects:

Douglas, Lloyd C. (Lloyd Cassel), 1877-1951 -- Film adaptations.

Near-death experiences -- Drama.

Men -- Conduct of life -- Drama.

Widows -- Drama.

Persistence -- Drama.

Genre:

Action and adventure films.

Feature films.

Films for hard of hearing people

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987, film director.

Hunter, Ross, film producer.

Blees, Robert, screenwriter.

Root, Wells, screenwriter.

Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007, actor.

Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985, actor.

Rush, Barbara, 1927-2024 actor.

Moorehead, Agnes, 1900-1974, actor.

Kruger, Otto, 1885-1974, actor.

Palmer, Gregg, 1927-2015, actor.

Shane, Sara, 1928-2022 actor.

Cavanagh, Paul, 1895-1964, actor.

Nugent, Judy, actor.

Kleeb, Helen, 1907-2003, actor.

Cutting, Dick, 1912-1972, actor.

Anders, Rudolph, 1895-1987, actor.

Nurney, Fred, 1895-1973, actor.

Campbell, Alexander, 1888-1970, actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Douglas, Lloyd C. (Lloyd Cassel), 1877-1951. Magnificent obsession.

Universal-International (Firm), presenter.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Remake of (work): Magnificent obsession (Motion picture : 1935)

Magnificent obsession (Motion picture : 1935)

Notes:

Based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas ; based on the screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Restored high-definition digital transfer.

Special features: Audio commentary; video interviews; theatrical trailer; John M. Stahl's 1935 version of the film; 'From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk remembers' documentary; essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, Milton Carruth ; original music, Frank Skinner.

Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer, Sara Shane, Paul Cavanagh, Judy Nugent, Helen Kleeb, Richard H. Cutting, Rudolph Anders, Fred Nurney, Alexander Campbell.

DVD video format, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (2.00:1), Dolby Digital monaural sound.

Includes English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Contents:

Disc 1. Restored high-definition digital transfer ; Audio commentary ; Video interviews ; Theatrical trailer -- Disc 2. New digital transfer of Stahl's earlier version of the film ; From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk remembers, a documentary / Scmidt, Eckhart.

LCCN:

2018600798

ISBN:

9781604651102

1604651105

Publisher Number:

CC1789D

Other Number:

270770163

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

904935

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Magnific