Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Magnificent Obsession (1954) - (Original Trailer)

Director Douglas Sirk created the look of America in the 1950's in his romantic melodrama Magnificent Obsession (1954).

Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Never Have To See Him Again

Rich bachelor Bob (Rock Hudson), hurt in a speedboat wreck, has discharged himself from a small hospital and finds out that Joyce (Jane Wyman), who picks him up, is the wife of the chief doctor whose death, he further learns, he helped cause, in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession, 1954.

Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Look Shocked

Fuming playboy Bob (Rock Hudson) hospitalized with Dr. Dodge (Richard H. Cutting) and nurse Nancy (Agnes Moorehead), unaware that not only is the head doctor (Phillips) dead but, through his own reckless accident, he helped cause his demise, in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession, 1954.

Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Something Very Cheap

Contrite Bob (Rock Hudson), who has learned of the altruistic lifestyle of a doctor whose death he partly caused, practices on Dan (Joe Mell), then is delighted to meet that doctor's widow Joyce (Jane Wyman), lunching at a country club in Douglas Sirk's melodrama Magnificent Obsession, 1954.

Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Toast I'd Give You Two

We meet daughter Joyce (Barbara Rush) and Helen (Jane Wyman) the second wife of Dr. Phillips, at whose home and clinic we know there is an emergency and where we meet nurse Nancy (Agnes Moorehead) and Dr. Dodge (Richard H. Cutting), early in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession, 1954.