The Moon and Sixpence
Strange DREAMS - He had ideas he never told her about...He didn't dare!
1942 · 1h 29m · Approved
Drama
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.
Director and cast
- Albert Lewin Director
- George Sanders as Charles Strickland
- Herbert Marshall as Geoffrey Wolfe
- Doris Dudley as Blanche Stroeve
- Eric Blore as Capt. Nichols
- Albert Bassermann as Dr. Coutras
- Florence Bates as Tiare Johnson
- Steven Geray as Dirk Stroeve
- Elena Verdugo as Ata
- Rondo Hatton as The Leper (uncredited)
- Devi Wani as Ata
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