Buy At:
Licensor
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Featuring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer, Sara Shane, Paul Cavanagh, Judy Nugent
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.
Technical Specifications
Format: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio:
2.00:1
Audio:
English 1.0 PCM Mono
Resolution:
Subtitles:
English
Region:
A
Discs:
2 Discs |
BD-50
Supplements
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Thomas Doherty
- Magnificent Obsession (1935, 102 minutes), a new digital transfer of John M. Stahl’s earlier version of the film
- From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991, 82 minutes), a rare documentary by German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt in which Douglas Sirk reflects upon his career
- Interview from 2009 with screenwriter Robert Blees
- Video interviews with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, in which they pay tribute to Sirk
- Theatrical trailer
- Essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Forum Member Statistics
Sign-in with your forum account to rate this release
Film
Picture
Audio
Supplements
Artwork
Restoration Information
Restoration by:
/
Year:
Scanned at:
Restored at:
Sources:
,
Notes: