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6.3/10 • 16

1942-10-271h 29m

Drama

Strange DREAMS - He had ideas he never told her about...He didn't dare!

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.

Directors
Albert Lewin
Writters
Albert Lewin
Editors
Richard L. Van Enger

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  1. George Sanders

    George Sanders

    Charles Strickland

  2. Herbert Marshall

    Herbert Marshall

    Geoffrey Wolfe

  3. Doris Dudley

    Doris Dudley

    Blanche Stroeve

  4. Eric Blore

    Eric Blore

    Capt. Nichols

  5. Albert Bassermann

    Albert Bassermann

    Dr. Coutras

  6. Florence Bates

    Florence Bates

    Tiare Johnson

  7. Steven Geray

    Steven Geray

    Dirk Stroeve

  8. Elena Verdugo

    Elena Verdugo

    Ata

  9. Rondo Hatton

    Rondo Hatton

    The Leper (uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Dec 3, 2023

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 Paris. The only constant in his life is his long suffering friend "Wolfe" (narrator Herbert Marshall) but even he loses interest as his friend becomes more odiously manipulative, introspective - and broke - as time goes by. Oddly enough, however desperate he becomes, he refuses to sell his works - and that poverty and a constant search for inspiration ultimately sees him in the South Seas where he finds some semblance of peace before his mortality catches up with him! At times the two-header boozy lunches between Sanders and Marshall give the script some pith, but that this selfish creature could make and break marriages quite so readily does test belief and I felt increasingly disinterested in the characters or the story on display here. The production is really quite basic and like so many of W. Somerset Maugham's stories - there is a distinct lack of joy and a surfeit of obsessiveness with the proceedings. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood - but I was a bit bored with this.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$401,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
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