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Magnificent Obsession
The first of Douglas Sirk's series of Technicolor soap operas (and one of his handful of remakes of John Stahl's black-and-white soap operas) that so endeared him to R.W. Fassbinder, among other cultists and auteurists. The storyline, from Lloyd C. Douglas's mystico-romantic novel about a young wastrel who hopes to atone for causing a woman's blindness by curing her of it, is quite possibly his most foolish and vulgar. And Rock Hudson acts as if he has never heard of "obsession," let alone is in the grips of one. The color work is not nearly so innocent. With Jane Wyman. 1954.
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MPAA Rating: NR
