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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = The Seventh Sin
| image = The_Seventh_Sin.jpg
| director = Ronald Neame
| writer = Karl Tunberg
| based_on =
| starring = Eleanor Parker
Bill Travers
George Sanders
| music = Mikls Rzsa
| cinematography = Ray June
| editing = Gene Ruggiero
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| runtime = 94 minutes
| released =
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $1,577,000.
| gross = $725,000
}}
'The Seventh Sin' is a 1957 American drama film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers and George Sanders. It is based on the 1925 novel 'The Painted Veil' by W. Somerset Maugham.
Plot
In post-World War II Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol (Eleanor Parker) has an affair with a married man, Paul (Jean Pierre Aumont). Her physician husband Walter (Bill Travers) discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a very public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week, Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who declines, claiming respect for his wife.
Carol sees her only choice is to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets the rakish and booze-soaked consul Tim (George Sanders). He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character.
Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father, and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
Cast
Production
The film was originally announced as a vehicle for Ava Gardner.
It was adapted for the screen by Karl Tunberg and directed by Ronald Neame. Neame left the film during production and Vincente Minnelli took over uncredited.Brian McFarlane, 'Autobiography of British Cinema' p 433
Reception
According to MGM records the film earned $250,000 in the US and Canada and $475,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $1,202,000.
See also
* List of American films of 1957
* 'The Painted Veil' (1934)
* 'The Painted Veil' (2006)
References
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