Woman Obsessed

1959 PG-13 1h 42m

6.6 / 10 12

RATING

6.6/10

YOUR RATING

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.

Director Henry Hathaway

Writers

Sydney Boehm John Mantley

Stars

Susan Hayward Stephen Boyd Barbara Nichols

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Geronimo1967 12 Nov 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 lumb...