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Woman Obsessed
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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“She hated the child whose life stirred within her...because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised...”
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- May 27, 1959
- 1h 42m
- English
- Henry Hathaway
- Sydney Boehm, John Mantley
- Released
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