I agree with the person who posted a preference on the "Comments" board. The original 1930s film was much better. The love story is minimized in the book, and I think that that gives makes the overall message greater impact.
shareIrene Dunne was great in everything she did. Nearly all of her movies were remade but not one holds up to the original. An Affair To Remember came close, but not quite as Love Affair with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.
shareI'v read the book three times and would love to see this 1935 version of "Magnificent Obsession," but can NOT find it. One guy claimed to have it, but won't answer my emails. Can I get it anywhere???? HELP!!! [email protected]
shareTry this:
http://www.forgottenfilms.biz/home.php?cat=277
Lots of hard to find Irene Dunne films there!!
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I have never seen the original but I will always have a soft spot for the rock hudson version because it was filmed in large part in the old lake arrowhead when it had the original village. Also the hospital scenes were from the actual hospital which was built in 1951. My wife actually worked there for several years, she and our kids, we all lived in arrowhead for six years. It is a real shame that stupidity on the part of the association was in part at least responsible for the wilfires in 2003, which we lived thru and last years fires, which ironically burned down the last house we lived in there.
shareThe 1935 film is available now in an 8-disc (4 films, 4 disks of supplements) Douglas Sirk set from Carlotta Films in France. About 70 euros at FNAC. It's a great set, and the print of MO 1935 is about as good as we're likely to get, ever. Lest you balk at the price, the set includes Stahl versions of BOTH MO and Imitation of Life as well as the Sirk versions, plus A Time to Love and a Time to Die (not available elsewhere) and All That Heaven Allows. The Sirk MO is in 1.33:1 format -- also unavailable elsewhere -- there is much debate about this as the British Sirk set (7 films, only 20 pounds -- but no supplements and some dubious transfers) includes a 2:1 version -- apparently cropped at top and bottom (but I have not yet personally done the research to determine which version is the cropped one). For those of you who have not yet region-freed your players, it is a MUST, and can be done very easily with a little research. Lots of good stuff never reaches the U.S., all in the name of protecting commercial interest for new films. Why this should apply to classics is beyond me. (OK, now I'll get off my soapbox.)
I can assure you the UK OPtimum 2.00:1 version crops the movie savagely top and bottom. The sides remain uncropped in the Full Frame version.
A port of this (with a couple of minor local extras) is being published in Australian by Madman in May this year, followed by other titles from the Carlotta, plus All I Desire. Unfortunately the local editiosna re priced at max dineros and the current exchange rate is around AUD1 equals 93-94 US cents.
There is now some talk that Madman may do a box set of five or six 50s Sirks, (including the two Stahl "originals") late in 08 which would bring a big saving in price.
This is the version I love, too. Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor -- nothing more need be said.
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I prefer this version also.
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Same here.
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