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Magnificent obsession /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1789D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 457.Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2008]Edition: Two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604651102
  • 1604651105
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Douglas, Lloyd C. 1877-1951. Magnificent obsession
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.A2 C75 2008 v. 457
Online resources:
Contents:
Disc 1. Magnificent obsession (1954) / directed by Douglas Sirk (108 min.). ; Audio commentary ; Video interviews ; Theatrical trailer -- Disc 2. Magnificent Obsession (1935) / directed by John M. Stahl (102 min.) ; From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk remembers, a documentary / Scmidt, Eckhart.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, Milton Carruth ; original music, Frank Skinner.
Cast: 1954 version: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer, Sara Shane, Paul Cavanagh, Judy Nugent, Helen Kleeb, Richard H. Cutting, Rudolph Anders, Fred Nurney, Alexander Campbell.Cast: 1935 version: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles ButterworthSummary: Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention and the use of the town's only resuscitator--at the very moment that beloved local Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies waiting for the life-saving device. Bob and the doctor's widow, Helen, find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.--Container.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1205 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050123462

Based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas ; based on the screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Restored high-definition digital transfer.

Special features: Audio commentary; video interviews; theatrical trailer; John M. Stahl's 1935 version of the film; 'From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk remembers' documentary; essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

Disc 1. Magnificent obsession (1954) / directed by Douglas Sirk (108 min.). ; Audio commentary ; Video interviews ; Theatrical trailer -- Disc 2. Magnificent Obsession (1935) / directed by John M. Stahl (102 min.) ; From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk remembers, a documentary / Scmidt, Eckhart.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

DVD video format, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (2.00:1), Dolby Digital monaural sound.

In English; includes English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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