Film

Magnificent Obsession

(Le secret magnifique)

Retrospettiva: Douglas Sirk

USA · 1953 · DCP 2K · Color · 108' · o.v. English

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A remake of Stahl’s 1935 film and the first of Universal’s great Technicolor melodramas. A series of coincidences and fatal accidents lead to blindness for Jane Wyman and redemption for Rock Hudson. A story “halfway between kitsch and madness”, sublimated through the great art of the director.


Information

Director

Douglas Sirk

Screenplay

Robert Blees, Wells Root

Cast

Agnes Moorhead, Barbara Rush, Jane Wyman, Otto Kruger, Rock Hudson

Producer

Ross Hunter

Cinematography

Russell Metty

Editing

Milton Carruth

Music

Frank Skinner

Production

Universal International

International sales

Park Circus

Print

Park Circus