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Woman Obsessed

Woman Obsessed

6,6 /10 (12 Votes)
1959 EN 102 min

Overview

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.

Release date

27/05/1959

Votes

12

Popularity

0.4

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

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

102 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2023-11-12

⭐ 6

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…

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