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The Seventh Sin (1957)

The Seventh Sin poster
Directed by
Ronald Neame
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in 1920s Hong Kong has an affair that leads to scandal. Her husband, a bacteriologist, takes her to a remote Chinese village during a cholera outbreak. The story follows their troubled marriage and her personal transformation.

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What happens

The Seventh Sin is a 1957 American drama film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers and George Sanders. It is based on the 1925 novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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