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The Great Sinner is a 1949 American film noir drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. Based on the 1866 short novel The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the film stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Frank Morgan, Ethel Barrymore, Walter Huston, Agnes Moorehead and Melvyn Douglas .
With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston. In the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.
In the famous casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, during the wild, decadent days of the 1860s, young Pauline Ostrovsky, a reformed gambling addict, watches over Fedja, a talented writer whose obsessive love for her and his near-ruination from gambling has resulted in physical collapse.
When accomplished novelist Fedja (Gregory Peck) becomes enamored of the stunningly beautiful and mysterious Pauline (Ava Gardner) on a train to Paris, he abandons his plans and instead goes with...
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Dec 28, 2012 · trailerdirected by Robert Siodmakstarring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Dougla.
Starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas. Master of mood Robert Siodmak directs this lush period drama inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Gambler,” a tale of sinners great and small caught in a vortex of self-destruction amid the grandeur of red-velvet gambling halls and the desperate seediness of cramped pawnshops.
