Woman Obsessed teams Susan Hayward and Stephen Boyd in a rugged northwestern about a widow and the farmhand she hires. Though set in Canada according to the Citadel Film Series book, The Films Of Susan Hayward the outdoor scenes were shot in Lone Pine, a location that director Henry Hathaway favored.
Susan Hayward was a great beauty and a great actress and was at the pinnacle of her fame during the production of this film having just won the Oscar for her legendary performance in I Want To Live.Ms.
Susan Hayward had a contract with 20th and this film was done at 20th right after Susie's great sensational hit movie I Want To Live!This film along with Demetrius and The Gladiators, White witch Doctor, and Soldier Of Fortune play all the time on the cable package I subscribe to, so a new generation of film fans can see Ms.
Producer Sydney Boehm also adapted John Mantley's book for the screen, an emotionally-tangled tale of a widow and her young son in Saskatchewan who advertise for help running their farm; a rugged yet oddly child-like logger (and an acquaintance of the widow's late husband) takes the job, while gossiping tongues wag back in town. Seems the logger has a chequered past and a mercurial temper, which should send warning signs to our heroine (Susan Hayward)--who ends up doing what all simp-heroines in soap operas do, she marries him!
In a relatively unknown film, Susan Hayward and Stephen Boyd give outstanding performances as a grieving single mom and a drifting handy man. The story is a simple one about grief, friendship and love.
Simple story. Widow marries handy man without really knowing him and is shocked when things don't work out.
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.
This neighbors to the North melodrama was released by 20th Century Fox after Hayward's Oscar win for "I Want To Live!" It isn't a terrible film, but it isn't terribly good either.
I loved this movie because of Susan Hayward. But it is a good story, set in beautiful country.
