Woman Obsessed

“She hated the child whose life stirred within her...because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised...”

6.3(11)19591h 42m

DramaRomance

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

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

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

2y ago

6.0

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...