Stephen Boyd had a very busy 1959. He played an alcoholic magazine editor in The Best of Everything, one of the most famous villains of all time in Ben-Hur, and a romantic do-gooder in Woman Obsessed. Quite a break for a young Irishman!
In this one, he's up against last year's Academy Award winner Susan Hayward. She's a happy wife and mother in a cute little log cabin in the Canadian Rockies, until a terrible fire takes her husband's life. Struggling to maintain her property and raise her son, she welcomes the mysterious stranger who knocks on her door. The handsome and charming Stephen Boyd gives his condolences and offers to help her out with all the manly chores. He stays in the shack by the barn, and her son takes a shine to him. Is a romance brewing? Suzy is still grieving, but soon she sheds her black mourning clothes in favor of colorful patterns. Stephen is very shy and worries about scaring her away if he reveals her feelings. He keeps his brown contacts in this movie, to keep you wondering if he's secretly the bad guy. After all, this is Messala we're talking about! Or is it Mike from Fabian Publishing? Will I tell you? Of course not. You'll have to rent Woman Obsessed to find out.
In this one, he's up against last year's Academy Award winner Susan Hayward. She's a happy wife and mother in a cute little log cabin in the Canadian Rockies, until a terrible fire takes her husband's life. Struggling to maintain her property and raise her son, she welcomes the mysterious stranger who knocks on her door. The handsome and charming Stephen Boyd gives his condolences and offers to help her out with all the manly chores. He stays in the shack by the barn, and her son takes a shine to him. Is a romance brewing? Suzy is still grieving, but soon she sheds her black mourning clothes in favor of colorful patterns. Stephen is very shy and worries about scaring her away if he reveals her feelings. He keeps his brown contacts in this movie, to keep you wondering if he's secretly the bad guy. After all, this is Messala we're talking about! Or is it Mike from Fabian Publishing? Will I tell you? Of course not. You'll have to rent Woman Obsessed to find out.