Magnificent Obsession

Robert Merrick is resuscitated by a rescue crew after a boating accident. The crew is thus unable to save the life of Dr. Hudson a physician renowned for his ability to help people who was having a heart attack at the same time on the other side of the lake. Merrick then decides to devote his life to making up for the doctors and becomes a physician himself. Mrs. Hudson the widow moving to Europe after her daughter Joyce is married. Merrick progresses in his career and in the storys climax gets involved in a railway accident in which Mrs. Hudson suffers serious injury. Merrick is instrumental in her recovery and Merrick and Mrs. Hudson subsequently marry.