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Temptation is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Pichel released in USA on 2 december 1946 with Merle Oberon
Temptation (1946)
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Add to a movie listTemptation is a 1946 American drama film noir directed by Irving Pichel. The drama features Merle Oberon and George Brent. 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. Other versions were filmed in 1918 and 1935.
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Victorian melodrama, set in Egypt, where a down-on-her-luck courtesan (Oberon) snares a loving but naive Egyptologist (Brent), marries him and moves to Egypt. She quickly becomes bored and embarks on an affair with Mamhoud Baroudi (Korvin). She falls in love with him, and together, they plot to do away with her husband.Actors
Merle Oberon
(Ruby)
George Brent
(Nigel Armine)
Paul Lukas
(Sir Meyer Isaacson)
Charles Korvin
(Mahoud Baroudi)
Lenore Ulric
(Marie)
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