The Moon and Sixpence

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1942-10-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (508 Reviews)

Director:

Albert Lewin

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

George Sanders Herbert Marshall Doris Dudley Eric Blore

Writer:

W. Somerset Maugham (novel)

Albert Lewin

Fullplot:

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

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