Only seven years after her great performance in "The Magnificent Ambersons," Agnes Moorehead is shrill and implausible as a pawnbroker in this expensive looking mess.
Gregory Peck (even when he's supposed to look dissipated, in stubbly beard) and Ava Gardner make a very appealing pair. She does her best and he is not bad.
The rest of the cast does what it can-- but Walter Huston and Frank Morgan in white wigs and beards?
Robert Siodmak directed some superb movies. This is not one of them. Dostoyevsky has been adapted and borrowed from by Hollywood -- sometimes successfully and, here, not very successfully at all.
Gregory Peck (even when he's supposed to look dissipated, in stubbly beard) and Ava Gardner make a very appealing pair. She does her best and he is not bad.
The rest of the cast does what it can-- but Walter Huston and Frank Morgan in white wigs and beards?
Robert Siodmak directed some superb movies. This is not one of them. Dostoyevsky has been adapted and borrowed from by Hollywood -- sometimes successfully and, here, not very successfully at all.