The Great Sinner.

Duration: 110 min

Year Published: 1949

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: 6Jul49 L2452, renewed 9Jul76 R636647 Renewal claimant: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc Original author: Loew’s, Inc

Description: Attempting to cure an adventuress of the gambling habit, a Russian novelist develops a passion for gambling which effects his moral and economic disintegration. Setting, Wiesbaden, 1860. Presumably based on the life of Dostoevsky.

Complete Record: THE GREAT SINNER. Loew's Inc., c1949. 110 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. An MGM picture. Summary: Attempting to cure an adventuress of the gambling habit, a Russian novelist develops a passion for gambling which effects his moral and economic disintegration. Setting, Wiesbaden, 1860. Presumably based on the life of Dostoevsky. Credits: Producer, Gottfried Reinhardt; director, Robert Siodmak; original story, Ladislas Fodor, Rene Fulop-Miller; screenplay, Ladislas Fodor, Christopher Isherwood; music score, Bronislau Kaper; film editor, Harold F. Kress. Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore. © Loew's Inc.; 6Jul49; LP2452.