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Woman Obsessed

"She hated the child whose life stirred within her...because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised..."

1959-05-27 Drama 1hr 42m

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

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Storyline

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

  • Released
    1959-05-27
  • Revenue
    n/a
  • Budget
    n/a
  • Runtime
    1hr 42m
  • Genre
    Drama, Romance
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    0
  • Production
    20th Century Fox

Crew

Henry Hathaway
Director
Sydney Boehm
Writer
Keywords:
widow quicksand flooded river

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Cast

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward
Mary Sharron
Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd
Fred Carter
Barbara Nichols

Barbara Nichols
Mayme Radzevitch
Dennis Holmes

Dennis Holmes
Robbie Sharron
Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel
Dr. R. W. Gibbs
Ken Scott

Ken Scott
Sergeant Le Moyne
James Philbrook

James Philbrook
Henri
Florence MacMichael

Florence MacMichael
Mrs. Bedelia Gibbs

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Reviews for Woman Obsessed
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A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-11-12

I found the title of this film slightly misleading as Susan Hayward shuns her glamorous looks to play "Mary". She lives happily with her hus... read more

I found the title of this film slightly misleading as Susan Hayward shuns her glamorous looks to play "Mary". She lives happily with her husband and young son "Robbie" (Dennis Holmes) until a forest fire renders her a widow and she really begins to struggle to maintain their small farm. Things might improve though when "Fred" (Stephen Boyd) arrives on the scene. He had been working at a local lumber mill but the conflagration put paid to that. For C$80 per month, he agree to stick around the place and help out. He sleeps in an annexe to the barn and as time passes it becomes clear what's going to happen next... "Fred" has something of the "Jekyll" to him though, and as he struggles to relate to the youngster and increasingly to his new wife, we discover that he has some baggage of his own and that is seriously compromising his new family. Tempers - and the weather - flare up and soon lives are in danger. Boyd does an ok job here, but is hampered by the scope of his character. The man we see at the start of the film isn't really the violent, bad-tempered, man we see in the middle - and we only have sparse crumbs to explain this change from the rather undercooked screenplay. The production benefits from some fine cinematography, it also suffers from some clearly studio based external scenes and a snow storm that must have all but exhausted the Californian confetti supply. Hayward offers a convincing performance here as the doting mother and the film tells a story of the pioneering spirit from a slightly different perspective.

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A Review by CinemaSerf

I found the title of this film slightly misleading as Susan Hayward shuns her glamorous looks to play "Mary". She lives happily with her husband and young son "Robbie" (Dennis Holmes) until a forest fire renders her a widow and she really b...

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A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-11-12

I found the title of this film slightly misleading as Susan Hayward shuns her glamorous looks to play "Mary". She lives happily with her husband and young son "Robbie" (Dennis Holmes) until a forest f...

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