Story Line
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.
“Strange DREAMS - He had ideas he never told her about...He didn't dare!”
Top Cast
George Sanders
Charles Strickland
Herbert Marshall
Geoffrey Wolfe
Doris Dudley
Blanche Stroeve
Eric Blore
Capt. Nichols
Albert Bassermann
Dr. Coutras
Florence Bates
Tiare Johnson
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Rating
6.3/ 10
Release Date
1942-10-27
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama
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User Reviews (2)
CinemaSerf
6/10
•12/3/2023George 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 de...
catfactory
6/10
•9/23/2025I 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 stor...