Magnificent Obsession (1954)
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Cast
as Bob Merrick
as Helen Phillips
as Joyce Phillips
as Nancy Ashford
as Rudolph
as Tom Masterson
as Valerie
as Dr. Giraud
as Judy
as Williams
as Dr. Dodge
as Dr. Dodge
as Sgt. Ames
as Mrs. Eden
as Dr. Fuss
as Dr. Laradetti
as Dr. Hofer
as First Mechanic
as Switchboard Girl
as Customer
as Customer
as Customer
as Customer
as Dr. Allan
as Dan
as Mr. Jouvet
as Mr. Long
as Mrs. Miller
as Switchboard Girl
as Maid
as Second Mechanic
as Chris
as Sgt. Burnham
as Nurse
as Phyllis
as Nurse
Critic Reviews for Magnificent Obsession
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Every step depends on stifled emotions and closely guarded secrets, resulting in a buildup of operatic passion that endows everyday gestures and inflections with grandeur and nobility.
[Sirk provides] a coolly formal approach to otherwise unwieldy projects.
It is a sensitive treatment of faith told in terms of moving, human drama which packs emotional impact.
Primary credit for mooring the picture to an earthly and earthy plane belongs to the two stars.
An extraordinary film about vision.
A film requiring as many Kleenex as you can spare, this unabashed appeal to the tear ducts does not fail in its efforts.
Audience Reviews for Magnificent Obsession
Sirk was an expert at the melodramatic and I had the wonderful opportunity to see this on the big screen. There is cheesiness in some parts but it is sweeping in its camera angles and its charms.
Super Reviewer
This is a wonderful movie of the fifties, with a cast of stars that in today?s film world would be unheard off. The budget to get these stars together today would make anyone faint. Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, and Agnes Moorehead. I grew up thinking Agnes Moorehead was a witches mother and she looked like one on Bewitched. But in this movie as in others from the fifties she proved to be a glorious actress. Rock Hudson plays the part of a young Millionaire with not a care in the world till his life is save at the expense of another?s. He then falls in love with the wife of the man who dies, and the only way to win her is losing his spoiled ways and obtaining a Magnificent Obsession. How can any film the Rock appear in be awarded anything less the 4 stars.
Super Reviewer
Candy coloured melodrama which at the end of the day is actually rather good!
Super Reviewer
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