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The Great Sinner is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Siodmak released in USA on 29 june 1949 with Gregory Peck
The Great Sinner (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe Great Sinner is a 1949 American 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.
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During the 1860s in Wiesbaden, Pauline Ostrovsky, a reformed addict, receives a manuscript from the dying writer Fedya (diminutive of Fyodor), in which he looks back at their first meeting: While traveling from Paris to Moscow, Fedya meets Pauline and secretly feels attracted to her. Noticing she is disembarking at Wiesbaden, Fedya decides to leave the train as well and follows her to a casino. There, he finds out Pauline is, like her father General Ostrovsky, a gambling addict. Upon seeing how undisturbed the Ostrovskys are to find out the General's wealthy mother is dying, he becomes interested in the effects of gambling. He decides to stay in Wiesbaden to do a character study of gambling addicts.Actors
Gregory Peck
(Fedja)
Ava Gardner
(Pauline Ostrovsky)
Melvyn Douglas
(Armand De Glasse)
Walter Huston
(General Ostrovsky)
Ethel Barrymore
(Grandmother Ostrovsky)
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