Magnificent Obsession: The Criterion Collection (1954) Rating: Starring: Irene Dunne, Barbara Rush, Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Taylor, Rock Hudson, Otto Kruger Director: Douglas Sirk Category: Drama, Classics Studio: Criterion Subtitles: Length: 108 mins     Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough role) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town's only resuscitato - at the very moment that beloved local Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies waiting for the life-saving device. Thus begins one of Douglas Sirk's most flamboyant master classes in melodrama, a delirious Technicolor mix of the sudsy and the spiritual in which Bob and the doctor's widow, Helen (Jane Wyman), find themselves inextricably linked to one another amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations. For this release, Criterion also presents John M. Stahl's 1935 film version of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.