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The Moon and Sixpence starring: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore, Albert Bassermann directed by: Albert Lewin Childrens Bookshop Price: $14.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0089859848223 Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC Label: Vci Video Manufacturer: Vci Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Vci Video Release Date: May 29, 2007 Running Time: 178 minutes Studio: Vci Video Theatrical Release Date: October 27, 1942 Sales Rank: 61240 MPN: 8482 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Description: Loosely inspired from the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Charles Strickland (Sanders), a middle-aged London stockbroker who abandons all responsibility to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, betraying his friends and associates, and living a life of unending hedonism in Tahiti. Undeniably brilliant as a painter, Strickland is also a good-for-nothing, until he is forced to confront himself on the threshold of death. Herbert Marshall plays Geoffrey Wolfe, who narrates the story as he attempts to make some sense of Strickland's creative ways. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fairly accurate portrayal......of perhaps history's greatest novel. I first read the book many years ago and fell in love with it. Then I fell in love with the work of Paul Gaugin of whom the book is a fictional biography. Yeah, yeah, there's the romanticism involved, i.e., a curator told me Gaugin apparently died of syphillus (though I'd read before that he died of heart failure). But Charles Strickland/Paul Gaugin represent the height of individualism: leave the comfortable behind for the unknown even though ... Read More: Rating:  - The Moon and Sixpence DVDReally excellent quality! This is a really rare film, not available for rental even. I have looked for years but always read someone else's review stating that "The color version was not included". This DVD has both versions, the color version is the one you want to see. Good story, GAD WHAT A CAD!!! Fun to watch, fun to see a VERY & GORGEOUS Elena Verdugo, best remembered as the housekeeper on the TV series Marcus Welby. Rating: - Splendid Maugham AdaptationSomerset Maugham's Anglicized roman-a-clef about Paul Gauguin received happy treatment in this 1942 Albert Lewin version. Always drawn to high-falutin' subjects, and frequently rather poky in his approach, here Lewin proves an ideal interpreter of the source material; he provides reams of dialogue for Maugham's usual narrator/stand-in, wittily played by Herbert Marshall, whose acres of commentary over silent visuals proves piquant rather than irritating. George Sanders was never seen to better ... Read More: Rating: - "The Moon and Sixpence (1942) ... George Sanders ... VCI Home Video (2007)"VCI Entertainment and United Artists present "THE MOON AND SIXPENCE" (1942) (89 mins/B&W/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley and Steven Geray --- Directed by Albert Lewin and released in October 27, 1942, our story line and film, While the beginning of this film is a bit slow, soon we are treated to a simple but effective treatment of this extraordinary story ... as the Gauguin-like painter Charles Strickland, played by George Sanders actually ... Read More: Rating:  - Great Movie,pity about the last reel!As a previous reviewer,A.Andersen,said:where is the missing last reel in color?..when orginally shown this looked terrific on the screen.The build-up has been lost in printing. Perhaps one day in the future we will discover a better print on DVD showing the full extent of this fine movie,as originally intended. |
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