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The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

Directed by Albert Lewin

Overview

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.

Length 89 minutes

Actors

George Sanders | Herbert Marshall | Doris Dudley | Eric Blore | Albert Bassermann | Florence Bates | Steven Geray | Elena Verdugo | Rondo Hatton | Devi Wani