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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
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
- 3 min
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.
Directed by. Writing Credits. Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Produced by. Gottfried Reinhardt. ... producer (produced by) Music by. Bronislau Kaper. Cinematography by. George J. Folsey. ... director of photography (as George Folsey) Editing by. Harold F. Kress. Art Direction by. Cedric Gibbons. Hans Peters. Set Decoration by.
The Great Sinner. 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 ...
The Great Sinner (1949) Plot. Showing all 3 items. Jump to: Summaries (3) A young writer goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion.