Directed by:
Albert LewinScreenplay:
Albert LewinCinematography:
John F. SeitzComposer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Eric Blore, Albert Bassermann, Florence Bates, Steven Geray, Elena Verdugo, Mike Mazurki, Willie Fung, Fernando Alvarado (more)Plots(1)
Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
George Sanders
Russian Empire
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Love Is News (1937)
Rebecca (1940)
Herbert Marshall
UK
Best movies:
The Little Foxes (1941)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Eric Blore
UK
Best movies:
Shall We Dance? (1937)
Top Hat (1935)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Albert Bassermann
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Madame Curie (1943)
Florence Bates
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Rebecca (1940)
The Tall Target (1951)
Steven Geray
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Gilda (1946)
Elena Verdugo
USA
Best movies:
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Chamber of Horrors (1944)
Blood and Sand (1941)
Mike Mazurki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Willie Fung
China
Best movies:
Lost Horizon (1937)
China Seas (1935)
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
Fernando Alvarado
USA
Best movies:
Giant (1956)
Tycoon (1947)
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Gibson Gowland
UK
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
Gaslight (1944)
Behind the Door (1919)
Molly Lamont
South Africa
Best movies:
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Robert Greig
Australia
Best movies:
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Irene Tedrow
USA
Best movies:
The Parent Trap (1961)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Heather Thatcher
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
If I Were King (1938)
Beau Geste (1939)
Rondo Hatton
USA
Best movies:
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)