Woman Obsessed (1959)

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Writers:

Sydney Boehm, John Mantley (novel)

Stars:

Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Susan Hayward	...	Mary Sharron
Stephen Boyd	...	Fred Carter
Barbara Nichols	...	Mayme Radzevitch
Dennis Holmes	...	Robbie Sharron
Theodore Bikel	...	Dr. R. W. Gibbs
Ken Scott	...	Sergeant Le Moyne
James Philbrook	...	Henri
Florence MacMichael	...	Mrs. Bedelia Gibbs

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

picnic | merry go round | canada | sawmill | carnival | 

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Taglines:

She should never have taken the stranger's love!

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 May 1959 (USA)

Also Known As:

Snow Birch

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System) 4-Track Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

uneven psychological drama

Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, and Theodore Bikel star in "Woman Obsessed," a 1959 film set in Canada.

Mary Shannon (Hayward) is a grieving widow with a young son (Dennis Holmes) who hires a man named Carter (Boyd) to help her with her farm. They eventually marry, in part to stop the town gossip. Carter turns out to be more troubled than he let on, and becomes angry with the boy, whom he considers a coward, and then violent toward Mary. When a crisis occurs, Mary learns what's behind Carter's outburst toward her son and the resulting violence toward her.

The acting in this film helps the movie, which is slowed down and cut up by too many establishing shots of beautiful scenery. Hayward does a good job as a strong woman who attempts to put her grief aside and move on, but finds it difficult. And Boyd is excellent as a man in great pain who faces rejection from the people he loves; the more he's rejected, the more angry he becomes.

Slow moving. It's a shame we lost Boyd so early on - he was a strong actor and very handsome.