Any person can change his behavior up to his degradation according to the circumstances, and this film is an evidence of it. One may have a normal life without difficulties, but one day that life is strongly changed by an unpredictable factor. That factor may be love, and those things which appeared to be non sense are becoming important, and the life's person is seriously shaken. Young then Gregory Peck stars this film in the role of the writer Fedja, probably Feodor as full name, while beautiful Ava Gardner, for me probably the three women most beautiful ever in Hollywood, co-stars as attractive Pauline Ostrovsky. The rest of the cast has excellent actors as Walter Huston, Melvyn Douglas and already old Ethel Barrymore. It is clear that the environment of the film is during the XIX century. The value of the film is in its morale, at that time gambling was like the nowadays drug, rich people used to be vicious of gambling. Love may also affect the
Review of The Great Sinner
