- 出演: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger
- 監督: Douglas Sirk
- 脚本: Finley Peter Dunne, Lloyd C. Douglas, Robert Blees, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman
- 製作者： Ross Hunter
- 形式: Color, HiFi Sound, Import
- 言語 英語, ドイツ語
- テープ数：: 1
- 販売元: Universal Studios
- VHS発売日: 1998/01/01
- 時間: 108 分
- ASIN: 6300183890
- Amazon ベストセラー商品ランキング: ビデオ - 79,434位 (ビデオのベストセラーを見る)
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Rock Hudson became a beefcake star playing a self-absorbed, thrill-chasing millionaire playboy in the first of Douglas Sirk's glossy Technicolor melodramas. In a classic example of the wicked machinations of soap opera fate, Hudson's showboating antics kill the most saintly man in motion-picture history and stalk his newlywed widow (Jane Wyman), driving her into an accident that leaves her blind. The kindly attentions of a bohemian painter and part-time guardian angel help turn Hudson's life around, and he rejects his irresponsible lifestyle and dedicates himself to his new "magnificent obsession" of philanthropy and good deeds, meanwhile romancing Wyman in a sincere, soft-spoken voice and with a phony name. Magnificent Obsession was a huge success and established a style Sirk would refine through the 1950s, reaching a baroque peak in Written on the Wind and culminating with what may be his most successful and most famous film, Imitation of Life. Compared to his later successes, this is arch and flat, lacking the ironic edge and luscious style of his best films, but it's an exceedingly handsome production in bold, bright colors where swooning romance and life-saving operations define life as an emotional roller coaster of mythic proportions. --Sean Axmaker
On the DVD
Criterion's double-disc edition of Magnificent Obsession shines a light on two directors, four stars, and one author. In 1935, John M. Stahl adapted Lloyd C. Douglas's 1929 potboiler with Irene Dunne as the widowed Helen Hudson and Robert Taylor as Bob Merrick, the sportsman-turned-doctor who shakes up her world. In 1954, Douglas Sirk filmed the story with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, with whom he would re-team for All That Heaven Allows (Sirk remade three Stahl pictures, most notably Imitation of Life). In his wide-ranging commentary track, film scholar Thomas Doherty describes the former Klaus Detlef Sierck as "the maestro of the Hollywood soap opera," arguing that his adaptation is "more firmly grounded in reality and credibility" due to better plotting and smarter writing (it's clear which one he prefers). Stahl's black-and-white picture presents a lighter, almost screwball take on the Douglas novel with Taylor's Merrick acting more like a petulant schoolboy than a post-collegiate playboy. As his personal assistant puts it, he's "barmy in the crumpet," while Dunne's more down-to-earth turn as Hudson--Phillips in the later film--anticipates her classic performance in Love Affair, but it's hard to argue with Doherty: Sirk's Technicolor sensation is the definitive version.
In their video remembrances, Allison Anders talks about growing up with his work, while Kathryn Bigelow cites him as an influence on her first movie, The Loveless. The set concludes with the theatrical trailer (featuring Wyman as herself), an essay from film critic Geoffrey O'Brien, and an in-depth 1980 interview with the director from the German program From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers, in which he discusses Written on the Wind and The Tarnished Angels, both also starring Rock Hudson. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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