#the great sinner

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Ava Gardner holding a pug puppy Pudgsy on the set of The Great Sinner, 1949

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Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck The Great Sinner 1949

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If the loustat reunion doesn’t look like this then brother, I don’t want it!

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Gregory Peck saying "I'll make a woman of you" in The Great Sinner is going to live in my head rent free.

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FRANK MORGAN: JUNE 1, 1890 - SEPTEMBER 18, 1949

PERSONAL FAVORITE MOVIES: BEST OF ENEMIES (1933), BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD (1933), THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE (1934), THE MIGHTY BARNUM (1934), NAUGHTY MARIETTA (1935), THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (1936), BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (1937), PARADISE FOR THREE (1938), THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940), THE GHOST COMES HOME (1940), THE MORTAL STORM (1940), BOOM TOWN (1940), THE WILD MAN OF BORNEO (1941), TORTILLA FLAT (1942), THE HUMAN COMEDY (1943), THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (1944), COURAGE OF LASSIE (1946), THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1948), THE GREAT SINNER (1949), KEY TO THE CITY (1950)

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Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in The Great Sinner (Robert Siodmak, 1949)

Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead. Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor, Christopher Isherwood, René Fülöp-Miller, based on a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Cinematography: George J. Folsey. Art direction: Hans Peters, Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Harold F Kress. Music: Bronislau Kaper. 

Gregory Peck's handsomeness and charisma made him a movie star, and served him well in films like Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) and To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962), but he never achieved the gravitas and vulnerability that would have made him a great actor. Unfortunately, both of those characteristics are what was needed to play the Dostoevskyan protagonist of The Great Sinner, loosely based on the novella The Gambler, with borrowings from Crime and Punishment and the author's own life, including his epilepsy and his addiction to gambling. The handsomely mounted production was a prestige project for MGM, but it ran into problems with the script and director Robert Siodmak's reluctance to film it as written. After the first cut, Siodmak was replaced by Mervyn LeRoy, with instructions to make more of the romance between the characters played by Peck and Ava Gardner. The cuts made in the film may explain why the roles played by Agnes Moorehead and Ethel Barrymore seem to be cast more generously than they deserve, considering the time they spend on screen. The "sin" of the title is gambling, of course, but the topic of gambling addiction is perfunctory at best. There are some good lines in the screenplay, such as the casino employee's observation that it's hard to detect patrons who are suicidal: "They smile right before they pull the trigger." And Ava Gardner is, as Peck's character calls her, "irritatingly beautiful." There's no excuse, however, for the swooningly pious climax of the film and the unconvincing happy ending. Best to skip The Great Sinner and watch a better movie about glamorous addicted gamblers, Jacques Demy's Bay of Angels (1963). 

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My heart ♥️

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He..l..pp ❤️☝️😳

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Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck in The great sinner

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#36. The Great Sinner - Robert Siodmak

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This is fantastic!! ☝️🙌👏👏😌

Happy Birthday Greg Peck: 5th April 1916 - 12th June 2003

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I do want to touch on one more thing. When black people were stolen from Africa and put on those ships. They stripped us of our culture, our language and our history. A lot of us in present day can’t even say where our ancestors came from exactly, we can’t speak the language, we don’t even know the names of our forefathers.

That music scene was so moving because it highlights that despite all of the terrible atrocities, we are connected. Past, present and future. It’s in our soul, it’s in our very bones. We will always carry each other. It’s spiritual and it’s unbreakable. That power is our birthright.

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Remmick Appreciation Post

What a horrific vampire. Yet somehow he's more welcoming than some people.

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Ohhhh …. I would and will dream of hugging him 🥰🥰😌just like this