THE GREAT SINNER

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Drawn to an alluring beauty he meets aboard a train, a Russian writer follows her into an elegant casino. There, he is intrigued by the obsessive life she and her father share, risking their fortunes and their futures on the spin of a roulette wheel. At first the writer is a mere observer. But soon he is drawn inexorably into a madness that threatens to destroy him. An all-star cast headed by Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner headlines this lush period drama inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Gambler, etching portraits of sinners great and small caught in a vortex of self-destruction. Robert Siodmak (The Killers, The Spiral Staircase) directs, capturing grandeur of red-velvet gambling halls and the desperate seediness of cramped pawnshops
• Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Friedrich von Ledebur, Ludwig Donath, Curt Bois, Ludwig Stössel, Ernö Verebes, James Anderson, John Arnold, Hannelore Axman, Martha Bamattre, Richard Bartell, Holger Bendixen, June Booth, Marianne Budrow, Sue Casey, Wheaton Chambers, André Charlot, John Cortay, Lorraine Crawford, Daniel De Jonghe, Sayre Dearing, Jean Del Val, Victor Desny, Neal Dodd, Elspeth Dudgeon, Jay Eaton, George Edwards, Frank Elliott, Herbert Evans, Antonio Filauri, Manfred Fürst, Martin Garralaga, Everett Glass, Lisa Golm, Ilka Grüning, Bert Hanlon, Eloise Hardt, William Hawes, Else Heims, Hans Hopf, Jane Howard, Manfred Inger, Thomas Ingersoll, Perry Ivins, Frank Jaquet, Geraldine Jordan, Leonid Kinskey, Fred Lorenz, Michael Macey, David McMahon, Joan Miller, Fred Nurney, George Paris, John Piffle, Joe Ploski, Emil Rameau, Vincent Renno, Walter Rode, Jeffrey Sayre, Sam Scar, Irene Seidner, Lester Sharpe, Dick Simmons, Lotte Stein, William Stelling, Robert R. Stephenson, Erica Strong, Ann Sturgis, Kenneth Tobey, Charles Wagenheim, Gisela Werbisek, Max Willenz, Robert Siodmak, Ladislas Fodor, Christopher Isherwood
• Director: Robert Siodmak
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Archive Collection
• Media Format: Movie