Gregory Peck
Fedja
Search results
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.
- (1.6K)
- Drama
- Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy
- 1949-06-29
Great Sinner, The - (Original Trailer) Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner star in director Robert Siodmak's The Great Sinner (1949), adapted from a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- Robert Siodmak, Marvin Stuart
- Gregory Peck
People also ask
Is the Great Sinner based on a true story?
Who is Gregory Peck in the Great Sinner?
Is the Great Sinner a good movie?
Who plays a compulsive gambler in the Great Sinner?
The Great Sinner (1949) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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...
- (11)
- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- Robert Siodmak
In The Great Sinner, Greg plays a compulsive gambler, and he gives a wonderful performance. At first, he's just a writer who wants to write about the incredible sickness of gambling, but before long, he finds out firsthand how the sickness can take over a man's life.
Fedya (Gregory Peck), a writer always looking out for inspiration, finds himself entranced by a chance encounter on a train with Pauline (Ava Gardner). He follows her into her world of high end gambling, determined to save her, and slowly loses everything. Quite a dull film.
