In our ongoing showcase of upcoming movies and TV our next set of releases comes from The Criterion Collection and are set to be released on Blu-ray on March 13th and are both from Director Douglas Sirk.
First up on March 13th comes MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, DOUGLAS SIRK's Technicolor melodrama which is a mix of the soap like drama and the spiritual. The movie stars ROCK HUDSON and JANE WYMAN.
Another SIRK classic, which again stars HUDSON and WYMAN is ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener.
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First up on March 13th comes MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, DOUGLAS SIRK's Technicolor melodrama which is a mix of the soap like drama and the spiritual. The movie stars ROCK HUDSON and JANE WYMAN.
Another SIRK classic, which again stars HUDSON and WYMAN is ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener.
Check out some more information below and let us know your thoughts!
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION - 1954 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. ------ SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
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ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS - 1955 This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind) follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow (Magnificent Obsession’s Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty (Spartacus), Sirk imbued nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. a profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama. ---- SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
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