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The Moon and Sixpence is a american film of genre Drama directed by Albert Lewin released in USA on 27 october 1942 with George Sanders
The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
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Add to a movie listThe Moon and Sixpence is a 1942 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name. Dimitri Tiomkin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
Synopsis
Geoffrey Wolfe (Herbert Marshall), a writer similar to Maugham, tells the story of Charles Strickland (George Sanders). A mediocre, seemingly unassuming London stockbroker, Strickland suddenly gives up his career, wife of 17 years (an uncredited Molly Lamont), and children and moves to Paris. Mrs. Strickland asks Wolfe to bring him back. To Wolfe's surprise, Strickland has not run away with another woman (as he had been told), but because Strickland feels compelled to become a painter. He exhibits no remorse or shame about abandoning his family and refuses to return to his old life, whereupon his wife divorces him. Despite his strong disapproval of Strickland's callous behavior, Wolfe is intrigued.Actors
George Sanders
(Charles Strickland)
Herbert Marshall
(Geoffrey Wolfe)
Eric Blore
(Capt. Nichols)
Albert Bassermann
(Dr. Coutras)
Florence Bates
(Tiare Johnson)
William Somerset Maugham
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