The Great Sinner ( The Gamblers )

The Great Sinner (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: The Gamblers
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
109 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Siodmak

Written By:
Ladislas Fodor
Christopher Isherwood

Actors:
Gregory Peck ..... Fedja
Ava Gardner ..... Pauline Ostrovsky
Melvyn Douglas ..... Armand de Glasse
Walter Huston ..... General Ostrovsky
Ethel Barrymore ..... Grandmother Ostrovsky
Frank Morgan ..... Aristide Pitard
Agnes Moorehead ..... Emma Getzel
Friedrich von Ledebur ..... Secretary
Ludwig Donath ..... Doctor
Curt Bois ..... Jeweler
Ludwig Stössel ..... Hotel Manager
Ernö Verebes ..... Valet

Synopsis:

Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His 'great sin' is gambling, which starts when he attempts to rescue aristocratic Ava Gardner from the gaming tables. He succeeds, only to lose himself to gambling fever, which costs him his friends, his reputation and his talent. Director Robert Siodmak was never happy with the screenplay for The Great Sinner, constant revisions bloated the film's rough-cut running time to nearly six hours! After Siodmak pared the film down, MGM insisted that the director reshoot the love scenes. Siodmak refused, thus the new sequences were filmed sans screen credit by Mervin LeRoy.

A young writer goes to Paris. He meets in the train a young woman forced to marry a wealthy casino manager in Monte Carlo. His true love for the girl is about to direct him to Monte Carlo and to turn himself into a compulsive gambler. He'll lose his money, his integrity and his principles to save this girl from her future while fighting the demon of gambling with the most powerful weapon a man can have: love.

A young writer goes to Monte Carlo to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 20 November, 2011.

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