The great sinner (DVD) / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; screenplay by Ladislas Fodor and Christopher Isherwood ; story by Ladislas Fodor and René Füelöep-Miller ; produced by Gottfried Reinhardt ; directed by Robert Siodmak.
Publisher:
Warner Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Orginally released as a motion piction in 1949. Agnes Moorehead, Ethel Barrymore, Gregory Peck, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ava Gardner, Frank Morgan.
Summary:
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.
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