The Great Sinner.
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✎ Suggest a correctionAttempting 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.
During the 1860s in Wiesbaden, Pauline Ostrovsky, a reformed addict, receives a manuscript from the dying writer Fedya (diminutive of Fyodor), in which he looks back at their first meeting. While traveling from Moscow to Paris, Fedya meets Pauline and secretly feels attracted to her. After seeing how undisturbed the Ostrovskys are to find out the General's wealthy mother is dying, he becomes interested in the effects of gambling. Fedya eventually is forced to borrow money from Armand to continue his gambling.
During the 1860s in Wiesbaden, Pauline Ostrovsky, a reformed addict, receives a manuscript from the dying writer Fedya (diminutive of Fyodor), in which he looks back at their first meeting. While traveling from Moscow to Paris, Fedya meets Pauline and secretly feels attracted to her. After seeing how undisturbed the Ostrovskys are to find out the General's wealthy mother is dying, he becomes interested in the effects of gambling. Fedya eventually is forced to borrow money from Armand to continue his gambling.
Credits
- Cast
- Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner
Copyright
6Jul49 L2452, renewed 9Jul76 R636647 Renewal claimant: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc Original author: Loew’s, Inc © Loew's Inc.; 6Jul49; LP2452.
Complete catalog 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.
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