Woman Obsessed
6
1959
1 hr 42 min
Drama
, Romance
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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- Cast：
- Susan Hayward , Stephen Boyd , Barbara Nichols , Theodore Bikel , Ken Scott , James Philbrook , Florence MacMichael
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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
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The acting in this movie is really good.
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