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  • The Great Sinner is a American film noir drama film directed by Robert Siodmak.
  • Christopher Isherwood () was born on August 26, , in Cheshire, England, the son of Frank and Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood.

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    A young writer (Gregory Peck) goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, he helps a beautiful woman (Ava Gardner) to leave the game , only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself . He finds that the only people who will have anything to do with him are those to whom he owes money . Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, carries out the definitive degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion . Eventually , he decides to make a big score to win big and pay off everyone to stay alive and keep his dignity and come out ahead. Possessed by a power more devastating than the seven deadly sins! He Gambled His Life on Her Love!

    An entertaining and enjoyable period piece , this film does an admirable and adequate job of portraying the addictive aspect of gambling, tempting and drawing the roles as well as the viewer , into the world of casinos frequently by the rich, the curious and the desperate. It displays a murky romance lavis

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    Isherwood, Christopher –

    (Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood)

    PERSONAL: Born August 26, , in High Lane, Cheshire, England; immigrated to the United States, , naturalized citizen, ; died of cancer, January 4, , in Santa Monica, CA; son of Francis Edward (a military officer) and Kathleen (Machell-Smith) Isherwood; longtime companion of Don Bachardy (an artist). Education: Attended Repton School, –22, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, –25; King's College, University of London, medical lärling, – Politics: Democrat. Religion: Vedantist. Hobbies and other interests: "I was a born film fan."

    CAREER: Writer, – Worked as a secretary to French violinist Andre Mangeot and his Music kultur String Quartet, London, England, –27; private tutor in London, –27; went to Berlin, Germany, in to visit W.H. Auden, and stayed, on and off, for four years; taught English in Berlin, –33; traveled throughout europe, –37; did film script work for Gaumont-British; went to China with

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    GREAT SINNER, THE (director: Robert Siodmak; screenwriters: Ladislas Fodor/Christopher Isherwood/based on a story by Fodor & Rene Fulop-Miller; cinematographer: George Folsey; editor: Harold F. Kress; music: Bronislau Kaper; cast: Gregory Peck (Fedja), Ava Gardner (Pauline Ostrovsky), Melvyn Douglas (Armand LeGlasse), Walter Huston (General Ostrovsky), Ethel Barrymore (Granny), Frank Morgan (Aristide Pitard), Agnes Moorehead (Emma Getzel, pawnbroker), Ludwig Stessel (Hotel Manager); Runtime: ; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Gottfried Reinhardt; MGM; )
    &#;Brings författare down to the level of soap opera.&#;

    Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

    It&#;s high-gloss MGM fare (considered one of its prestige pictures) that&#;s based loosely on the författare novel, The Gambler. It&#;s written by Ladislas Fodor and Christopher Isherwood from the story bygd Fodor & Rene Fulop-Miller. The sin in The Great Sinner is gambling. The sin in the production is that it&#;s dull. German-bor