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trolley freak
7Feb12
Sirk and his protege Hudson had worked together before and would go on to further joint success but it was this magnificent, delirious melodrama that was the big breakthrough for both of them. The film is a remake of an earlier hit for the studio and Rock stars as a selfish playboy who renounces his hedonistic ways and returns to his vocation as a brain surgeon after indirectly causing Wyman much distress. Glorious..
StellaWasaDiver
25Dec10
Moving score by Frank Skinner but some hollow acting from just about everybody, especially Agnes Moorehead and her disapproving looks. Technicolor looks great but it's looked better in other pictures.
odilonvert
18Dec10
Uh and one more thing -- take note of the breakfast scene when in depth conversation happens, salt keeps getting shaken on food, and both people leave without eating... ???
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richmondhill
4Apr10
Sirk's so-called ironic melodramatic swipes tend to leave me in two minds: simply lush soap operas or sly critiques of the hand that feeds them? Try as I might, one's reading tends to plump for the former. You can impose a retro-camp sensibility on these extravaganzas of insincerity (plenty of heavy underlining with celestial choirs and gaudy colour) , but don't dig too deeply - you might chip the varnish. Silly fun.
Jim Miller
31Dec09
America learns the horrible price of Rock Hudson's destiny in this lavishly ravaging, tongue-in-cheek melodrama. Shot like a beautiful bouquet of flowers by Russell Metty, produced by Ross Hunter, and directed by the Sultan of Soap himself, Douglas Sirk, 'Magnificent Obsession' explores questions of fate and faith, coincidence and chance, love and death, and is the grand-daddy of all modern medical drama. Dr. Philips must die so that playboy Bob Merrick may live in this demented wheel-of-fortune. A creepy film.