The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

6.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

19

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1942

Release Year

89 min

Runtime

Drama

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.

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Keywords

painting

tahiti

Cast

George Sanders

George Sanders

Charles Strickland

Herbert Marshall

Herbert Marshall

Geoffrey Wolfe

Doris Dudley

Doris Dudley

Blanche Stroeve

Eric Blore

Eric Blore

Capt. Nichols

Albert Bassermann

Albert Bassermann

Dr. Coutras

Florence Bates

Florence Bates

Tiare Johnson

Steven Geray

Steven Geray

Dirk Stroeve

Elena Verdugo

Elena Verdugo

Ata

Rondo Hatton

Rondo Hatton

The Leper (uncredited)

Devi Wani

Ata

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Reviews(2)

6.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

December 3, 2023

6

6/10

George Sanders is good, in what's quite an untypical type of role for him, in this otherwise rather plodding and wordy drama that has shades of the life of Paul Gauguin to it. He's a stockbroker ("Strickland") who tires of his life and his wife so decides to take up a career painting and living in P…

catfactory

catfactory

September 23, 2025

6

6/10

I am so torn with this movie. The drive to create, the artistic urge can be so overwhelming that some people eschew everything, all relationships and comforts, to pursue it. Humans are driven to make things, to create. Art and the way it tells a story is part of being human. Even if no one sees what…

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