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Drawn to an alluring beauty he meets aboard a train, a Russian writer follows her into an elegant casino. There he is intrigued by the obsessive life she and her father share, risking their fortunes and their futures on the spin of a roulette wheel. At first the writer is a mere observer. But soon he is drawn inexorably into a madness that threatens to destroy him.
An all-star cast headed by Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner headlines this lush period drama inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler, etching portraits of sinners great and small caught in a vortex of self-destruction. Robert Siodmak (The Killers, The Spiral Staircase) directs, capturing the grandeur of red-velvet gambling halls and the desperate seediness of cramped pawnshops.
Original Release
06/29/1949
US Release
06/29/1949
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gregory Peck | Fedja |
Ava Gardner | Pauline Ostrovsky |
Melvyn Douglas | |
Walter Huston | General Ostrovsky |
Ethel Barrymore | Grandmother Ostrovsky / Grandmother |
Frank Morgan | Aristide Pitard |
Agnes Moorehead | Emma Getzel |
Friedrich von Ledebur | Casino Secretary / Secretary |
Ludwig Donath | Doctor |
Curt Bois | Jeweler / Money Lender |
Directors
Writers
Ladislas Fodor, Christopher Isherwood, René Fülöp-Miller, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gregory Peck | Fedja |
Ava Gardner | Pauline Ostrovsky |
Melvyn Douglas | |
Walter Huston | General Ostrovsky |
Ethel Barrymore | Grandmother Ostrovsky / Grandmother |
Frank Morgan | Aristide Pitard |
Agnes Moorehead | Emma Getzel |
Friedrich von Ledebur | Casino Secretary / Secretary |
Ludwig Donath | Doctor |
Curt Bois | Jeweler / Money Lender |
Ludwig Stössel | Hotel Manager |
Ernö Verebes | Hotel Valet / Valet |
Fred Aldrich | Gambling Casino Patron |
James Anderson | Nervous Young Gambler |
John Arnold | Croupier |
Hanna Axmann-Rezzori | Staring Casino Patron |
William Bailey | Gambling Casino Accountant |
Martha Bamattre | Female Fountain Attendant |
Richard Bartell | Cloakroom Attendant |
Holger Bendixen | Waiter |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Gottfried Reinhardt | Producer |