Woman Obsessed

May 27, 1959

1h 42m

★ 6.5

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Mary Sharron

Susan Hayward

Fred Carter

Stephen Boyd

Mayme Radzevitch

Barbara Nichols

Robbie Sharron

Dennis Holmes

Dr. R. W. Gibbs

Theodore Bikel

Sergeant Le Moyne

Ken Scott

Henri

James Philbrook

Mrs. Bedelia Gibbs

Florence MacMichael

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