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 the most flamboyant master classes in melodrama from Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows), a delirious Technicolor mix of the sudsy and the spiritual in which Bob and the doctor’s widow, Helen (The Lost Weekend’s Jane Wyman), find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.
Extras
High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary from 2008 featuring film scholar Thomas Doherty
Magnificent Obsession, John M. Stahl’s 1935 adaptation of the same novel, newly restored
From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991), a documentary by German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt
Interviews from 2008 with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, in which they pay tribute to Sirk
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
Additional Information
More Information
SKU
5050629115239
Catalogue Number
CC3056BDUK
Product contents
2 discs
Year
1935
Director
Douglas Sirk
Format
Blu-Ray
Publisher(s)
THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Countries
USA
Colour
Colour
Subtitles
English subtitles for the Deaf and partial hearing
