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Director:
Ronald Neame
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Writers:
W. Somerset Maugham (novel)
Karl Tunberg (writer)
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Release Date:
1958 (Austria) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Garbo's role in "The Painted Veil" goes to Eleanor Parker... more

Cast

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Eleanor Parker ... Carol Carwin
Jean-Pierre Aumont ... Paul Duvelle
George Sanders ... Tim Waddington
Bill Travers ... Doctor Walter Carwin
Françoise Rosay ... Mother Superior
Ellen Corby ... Sister Saint Joseph
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Hong Kong, China

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Version of The Painted Veil (1934) more

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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Garbo's role in "The Painted Veil" goes to Eleanor Parker..., 3 October 2007
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Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

THE SEVENTH SIN is a remake of the Greta Garbo vehicle, "The Painted Veil", taken from a Somerset Maugham novel about a woman's journey to redeem herself. This time the unhappily married woman is ELEANOR PARKER and the husband is played by BILL TRAVERS (rather than the jilted dullard Herbert Marshall played in the Garbo version). Obviously designed to satisfy movie-goers who loved romantic stories of this sort, it manages to hold interest without ever becoming a great film.

Parker is poised and beautiful throughout, giving a very understated performance as a woman caught in the throes of what she believes is a great romance with JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT, who disappoints her when he refuses to divorce his wife. She flees to China with her doctor husband who is going to administer to those caught in a plague of cholera, eventually realizing that her selfish nature is capable of undergoing a change and working at a convent for orphaned Chinese children.

The plot resolution is a bit disappointing for anyone expecting a happy ending, but it's all tastefully handled material performed admirably by Parker and Travers. GEORGE SANDERS, as a brandy guzzling friend with some acid comments (in the Sanders manner), gives the story a lift with his wit and cynical charm.

Not bad as these sort of melodramas go, but nothing really special.

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