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Wikipedia article




'Holiday for Sinners' is a 1952 American drama film directed by Gerald Mayer and starring Gig Young, Keenan Wynn and Janice Rule.

Plot



Three men, reared together in New Orleans, but whose paths have drifted apart, each face a crisis during the last weekend of Mardi Gras: Dr. Jason Kent must decide between accepting a chance to become famous as a research scientist, which will mean leaving New Orleans and giving up the girl he loves, Susan Corvier, or staying in his father's practice among the poor; Father Victor Carducci is refused permission to open an independent clinic and is thinking of leaving the Church; punch-drunk prizefighter Joe Piavi is mainly operating in a survival mode and is trying to collect $1,500 owed to him by his former manager Mike Hennighan. When he finds out about the debt, brash reporter Danny Farber, not above a double-cross when it means gain for him, needles Hennighan about Joe, and then tells Joe that Henninghan is threatening to send him to an asylum.

Cast



* Gig Young as Dr. Jason Kent

* Keenan Wynn as Joe Piavi

* Janice Rule as Susan Corvier

* William Campbell as Danny Farber

* Richard Anderson as Father Victor Carducci

* Michael Chekhov as Dr. Konndorff

* Sandro Giglio as Nick Muto

* Edith Barrett as Mrs. Corvier

* Porter Hall as Louie

* Ralph Dumke as Mike Hennighan

* Jack Raine as Dr. Surtees

* Frank Dekova as the Wiry Man

* Will Wright as the Man with a Cigar

Reception



The New York Times review was mixed, but positive overall: The error of allowing a basic situation to be dissipated in irrelevancies has resulted, as it often does, in a weakened total impression in Holiday for Sinners....Basically, Mr. Youngs trouble is that hes beginning to doubt that the people he helps and comforts are worth the trouble. Why should he go on slipping Joe the ten spots or trying to get his eyesight restored? Shouldnt he, as he says, Let Joe take care of Joe? His is a fundamental question, a conflict of the soul that here, at least, is never answered satisfactorily. True, he does stay on, passing up the good job, but he never gives evidence that hes solved his problem, or answered his own questions....Keenan Wynn gives a performance as fine as youll see anywhere...youll have trouble recognizing Keenan Wynn, the comic....Holiday for Sinners, while lacking solidity, is worth seeing.O.A.G. Holiday for Sinners Opens at the Palace. New York Times, 20 September 1952.

According to MGM records, the movie earned $303,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $80,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss to the studio of $562,000.

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