The Seventh Sin

The Seventh Sin
Directed by	Ronald Neame
Written by	Karl Tunberg
Based on	The Painted Veil (1925 novel) by W. Somerset Maugham
Starring	Eleanor Parker Bill Travers George Sanders
Cinematography	Ray June
Edited by	Gene Ruggiero
Music by	Miklós Rózsa
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	June 28, 1957 (1957-06-28) (US)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,577,000[1]
Box office	$725,000[1]

The Seventh Sin is a 1957 American drama film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers and George Sanders. It is based on the 1925 novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham.

In post-World War II Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol (Eleanor Parker) has an affair with Paul (Jean Pierre Aumont), a married man. Her physician husband Walter (Bill Travers) discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a very public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider, and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and if he marries Carol within one week, Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's offer to Paul, who declines, claiming respect for his wife.

Carol sees her only choice is to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets the rakish and booze-soaked consul Tim (George Sanders). He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent, and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character.

Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father, and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong with an uncertain future.

The film was announced as a vehicle for Ava Gardner.^[2]

It was adapted for the screen by Karl Tunberg and directed by Ronald Neame. Neame left the film during production, and Vincente Minnelli took over and was uncredited.^[3]

According to MGM records, the film earned $250,000 in the U.S .and Canada and $475,000 in other markets, resulting in a loss of $1.2 million.^[1]

• List of American films of 1957
• The Painted Veil (1934)
• The Painted Veil (2006)

• The Seventh Sin at IMDb
• The Seventh Sin at AllMovie
• The Seventh Sin at the TCM Movie Database
• The Seventh Sin at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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