Summary
Melodrama starring George Sanders. Charles Strickland is a typical, middle-aged London stockbroker with a wife and family. Then one day he abandons everything to go and paint in Paris.
The Moon and Sixpence
- Drama
- Romance
- 1942
- Albert Lewin
- 88 mins
- A
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George Sanders stars as a London stockbroker who becomes a painter in Paris, goes all bohemian and then drops out in the South Seas. Somerset Maugham's novel was partly inspired by Gauguin and his sojourn in the Marquesas Islands, but Sanders's performance is more Oscar Wilde than Maugham. (It's certainly far removed from Anthony Quinn's piratical Gauguin in Lust for Life.) Don't look for luscious location photography either; this is an effete, studio-bound exploration of artistic temperament.
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Credits
Cast
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Charles Strickland | George Sanders |
| Geoffrey Wolfe | Herbert Marshall |
| Dirk Stroeve | Steven Geray |
| Blanche Stroeve | Doris Dudley |
| Captain Nichols | Eric Blore |
| Doctor Coutras | Albert Basserman |
| Mrs Strickland | Molly Lamont |
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Albert Lewin |
Details
- Theatrical distributor
- United Artists Corp. Ltd
- Languages
- English
- Formats
- Colour
