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The Great Sinner (1950)

The Great Sinner poster
Directed by
Robert Siodmak
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A writer gets drawn into the world of gambling in a German spa town. He falls for a wealthy woman who is also addicted to the risk of betting.

melancholictenseatmosphericslow-burndramaticdrearyintrospectivemoralizingvisually shadowy

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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