The Great Sinner

1949
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1h 50m

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Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, and Robert Siodmak in The Great Sinner (1949)

A young writer goes to Wiesbaden 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.

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Un jeune écrivain se rend à Wiesbaden pour écrire sur le jeu et les joueurs, pour finalement devenir lui-même un joueur compulsif.Un jeune écrivain se rend à Wiesbaden pour écrire sur le jeu et les joueurs, pour finalement devenir lui-même un joueur compulsif.Un jeune écrivain se rend à Wiesbaden pour écrire sur le jeu et les joueurs, pour finalement devenir lui-même un joueur compulsif.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

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MA NOTE

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Secretary
(as Frederick Ledebur)

Ludwig Donath

Doctor

Curt Bois

Jeweler

Ludwig Stössel

Hotel Manager
(as Ludwig Stossel)

Ernö Verebes

Valet
(as Erno Verebes)

Fred Aldrich

Gambling Casino Patron
(uncredited)

James Anderson

Nervous Young Gambler
(uncredited)

John Arnold

Croupier
(uncredited)

Hanna Axmann-Rezzori

Staring Casino Patron
(uncredited)

William Bailey

Gambling Casino Accountant
(uncredited)

Martha Bamattre

Female Fountain Attendant
(uncredited)

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Anecdotes
Deborah Kerr was initially scheduled to co-star with Gregory Peck. Then Lana Turner was slotted for the role, and then withdrawn from the production due to her extended European honeymoon with Henry J. Topping, Jr. Finally, Ava Gardner was cast in what turned out to be the first of three films to co-star the pair, along with Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (1952) and Le dernier rivage (1959).

Gaffes
On numerous occasions during the long Roulette game when the "No more bets" call is made, the wheel is shown to be turning pretty slowly; yet immediately afterwards as the ball is getting ready to drop into the slot, the wheel is suddenly turning much more rapidly.

Citations
Pauline Ostrovsky: Oh, you can count on my vanity. No matter what you say I'll regard it as a compliment.
Fedja: All right, if you insist. To one of the most corrupt women I've ever met.
Pauline Ostrovsky: Corrupt?
Fedja: Corrupt, confused, frustrated, and empty.
Pauline Ostrovsky: But in a charming sort of way, you'll admit.
Fedja: Well charm, my dear is your gambling capital. You toss it on the table like money, like everything else, even a dying grandmother.
Pauline Ostrovsky: When a man takes the trouble to be so rude to a woman, he is usually falling in love with her.
Fedja: You're not a woman. You are a symptom.
Pauline Ostrovsky: Of what?
Fedja: Of one of the worlds deadliest diseases, sophistication. More champagne?
Pauline Ostrovsky: What else am I?
Fedja: You are irritatingly beautiful.
Pauline Ostrovsky: Well, at last!
Fedja: And everything, I reject.

Connexions
Edited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)

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9/10

" On the final brink of destruction, we all reach out for him "

Perhaps it's his fine acting, his delivery style or his distinguished good looks. Whatever it is, Gregory Peck had displayed it in all his films. Here is one of his best, called " The Great Sinner. " If you've read Dostoyevsky's novel 'the Gambler', penned in 1867, you will have a pretty good idea where the movie came from. It's the story of a successful young writer named Fedja (Gregory Peck) who, while traveling through Europe, meets and is immediately struck by Pauline Ostrovsky (Ave Gardner) the daughter of a retired General. Through her, he discovers, she and her father are in great debt to the Casino owner, Armand de Glasse (Melvyn Douglas). Once in love, he realizes there is only one way to win her and that's to pay off her family's notes. With great but innocent naiveté he cautiously enters the world of gambling and is surprised by his extraordinary luck when he continues to win, win and eventually break the bank. Believing he can quit, he begins making plans to wed and move to the countryside. Unfortunately as most gamblers realize there is a subtle, yet, powerful addiction to winning and slowly it compels him to return to the alluring and enticing realm of the roulette wheel. This early Black and White movie is nearly a forgotten Classic of Peck's early career and were it not for his co-stars like, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan, it may have remained in obscurity. Instead, this wonderful, (albeit lengthy) and dramatic film has become a milestone for Gregory Peck and one which created an enduring legacy for this great actor. ****