Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.

Jane Wyman
as Helen Phillips

Rock Hudson
as Bob Merrick

Barbara Rush
as Joyce Phillips

Agnes Moorehead
as Nancy Ashford

Otto Kruger
as Edward Randolph

Gregg Palmer
as Tom Masterson

Paul Cavanagh
as Dr. Henry Giraud

Sara Shane
as Valerie Daniels

Richard H. Cutting
as Dr. Derwin Dodge

Judy Nugent
as Judy
John Chard
Doc Rock and the playboy redemption. Magnificent Obsession is adapted from a novel by Lloyd C Douglas, and it had been previously filmed back in 1935 with Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor in the leads. Here the piece is directed by melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk and features Jane Wyman and Rock Hud...