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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 .
- $2,075,000
- Gottfried Reinhardt
The Great Sinner: Directed by Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy. 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.
- Robert Siodmak, Mervyn Leroy
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- 3 min
The Great Sinner. 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 ...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- Robert Siodmak
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Great Sinner, The -- (Movie Clip) Redeemed By Sinners Fedja (Gregory Peck) redeems a pawn ticket for a dead friend, meeting Emma (Agnes Moorehead), writing, then chatting with new friend Pauline (Ava Gardner), in The Great Sinner, 1949, based on Dostoyevsky's The Gambler.
- Robert Siodmak, Marvin Stuart
- Gregory Peck
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The jovial kind with his confident cigar. The nervous one with the desperate cigarette, haunting the tables like a ghost in a graveyard where his luck lies buried. The money lenders, tireless little vultures, eyeing their prey with anticipation., driving their cut-throat bargains.
Directed by Robert Siodmak • 1949 • United States 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.
