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    1946 · Drama · 1h 38m

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  1. Temptation (1946 film) Temptation. (1946 film) Temptation is a 1946 American film noir thriller film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin and Paul Lukas. The film was based on Robert Smythe Hichens 's 1909 novel Bella Donna. Other film adaptations of the novel were produced in 1915, 1923 and 1934 .

  2. Temptation: Directed by Irving Pichel. With Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas. Ruby, a beautiful divorcee with a shady past, marries a rich Egyptologist, and while he continues excavating a Pharoah's tomb, she becomes bored until she falls for a debt-ridden, blackmailing Egyptian prince.

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    • Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
    • Irving Pichel
    • 1946-12-02
  3. Ruby, a beautiful divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel Armine. He installs her at his Cairo estate while he continues his excavation work, but Ruby is hopelessly bored. A young woman of her acquaintance confides that she is being blackmailed over indiscreet letters she foolishly sent to a man called Baroudi ...

  4. On April 12, 1956 the Lux Video Theatre broadcast a version of Temptation directed by Norman Morgan, starring Sarah Churchill, Dayton Lummis and John Bently. All of the earlier film versions are faithful to Hichen's original ending, which has Ruby, stunned by "Mahmoud Baroudi's" rejection, wandering off to die in a desert sandstorm.

    • Irving Pichel, Frank Shaw
    • Merle Oberon
  5. Temptation 1946 1h 38m Drama List. Reviews After marrying an archaeologist (George Brent), a woman (Merle Oberon) with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man. ...

    • Drama
    • Merle Oberon
    • Irving Pichel
  6. Temptation is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed by Irving Pichel starring Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin and Paul Lukas. The film was based on Robert Smythe Hichens's novel Bella Donna. The 1923 film Bella Donna, starring Pola Negri, which was directed by George Fitzmaurice is also based on that novel.

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  8. A lot of people on film twitter learned about Merle Oberon today, regarding her status as the first Asian actress nominated for a leading role at the Oscars (not the best discourse), so I decided to explore her filmography a bit further. Temptation is the spiritual predecessor to Born to Kill, made in the following year

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