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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.
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.
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- Drama
- Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy
- 1949-06-29
Synopsis. 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. As Pauline reads from the pages of Fedja's ...
- Robert Siodmak, Marvin Stuart
- Gregory Peck
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.
Gen. Ostrovsky. Ethel Barrymore. Grandmother Ostrovsky. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. When accomplished novelist Fedja (Gregory Peck) becomes enamored of the stunningly beautiful...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- Robert Siodmak
The Great Sinner is a film directed by Robert Siodmak with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston .... Year: 1949. Original title: The Great Sinner. Synopsis: A young writer goes to Paris. He meets in the train a young woman forced to marry a wealthy casino manager in Monte Carlo.
Overview. User Reviews. Cast & Crew. Releases. Related. Share on. facebook. twitter. Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great sin" is gambling, which starts when he attempts to rescue aristocratic Ava Gardner from the gaming tables.
