Magnificent Obsession

Name: Magnificent Obsession
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: August 7, 1954
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 77

1954

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 7, 1954 | Not Rated

Summary: A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Noel Murray

It's one wacked-out melodrama, but it's wildly entertaining. Read full review

Shawn Levy

Sirk freighted this material with surprisingly delicate art: gorgeous photography and staging, a fluency of camera work rarely seen even in A-level movies, and an earnest tone evident in the music, dialogue and acting. [17 Oct 1999]

Staff (Not Credited)

Sirk turns all this into an extraordinary film about vision: sight, destiny, blindness (literal and figurative), colour and light; the convoluted, rather absurd actions (a magnificent repression?) tellingly counterpointed by the clean compositions and the straight lines and space of modern architecture. Read full review

Richard Brody

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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Not quite as heart-wrenching as the original version, this remake is still pretty good and does benefit from being filmed in color. Read full review

Wanda Hale

It is full of goodness of purpose, sweetness and nobility of character. [05 Aug 1954, p.38]

Howard Thompson

Playing his first major role, the strapping, manly Mr. Hudson gives a fine, direct account of himself, in the film's only real surprise. Otherwise, Universal has delivered the goods—or good—exactly as prescribed by the doctor. Read full review

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