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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...

6.6(12)19591h 42m2

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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Language
English
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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical27 May 1959

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Woman Obsessed was released on 27 May 1959.

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    CinemaSerf

    11/12/2023

    6/10

    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 conf…

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