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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.
- 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 Eckhart Schmidt
- Interview from 2009 with screenwriter Robert Blees
- Interviews from 2008 with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, in which they pay tribute to director Douglas Sirk
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
- THE CRITERION COLLECTION
- 108 mins approx
- Douglas Sirk
- PG
- 2
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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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.
- 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 Eckhart Schmidt
- Interview from 2009 with screenwriter Robert Blees
- Interviews from 2008 with filmmakers Allison Anders and Kathryn Bigelow, in which they pay tribute to director Douglas Sirk
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
- THE CRITERION COLLECTION
- 108 mins approx
- Douglas Sirk
- PG
- 2
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Frequently Bought Together
+
Total Price: £61.98
Add both to basket
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A Superior Presentation of A Truly Unique Vision
Douglas Sirk is a director possessed of a unique vision. Bold, beautiful, and full of powerful emotions. Very much of its time and yet timeless. Highly recommended.
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