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The Great Sinner


Director: Robert Siodmak

Producer: Gottfried Reinhardt

Music: Bronislau Kaper

Genre: Drama

Year: 1949

Running time: 110 minutes

Territory: International

Studio: Warner

Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan

Drawn to an alluring beauty he meets aboard a train, a Russian writer follows her into an elegant casino. There he is intrigued by the obsessive life she and her father share, risking their fortunes and their futures on the spin of a roulette wheel. At first the writer is a mere observer. But soon he is drawn inexorably into a madness that threatens to destroy him. An all-star cast headed by Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner headlines this lush period drama inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler, etching portraits of sinners great and small caught in a vortex of self-destruction.




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