The Seventh Sin

The Seventh Sin
Directed by Ronald Neame
Written by Karl Tunberg
Starring Eleanor Parker
Bill Travers
George Sanders
Distributed by MGM
Release dates
  • 1957
Running time
 94 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,577,000[1]
Box office $725,000[1]

The Seventh Sin is a 1957 film based on the 1925 novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham.

Plot

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol (Eleanor Parker) has an affair with a married man, Paul (Jean Pierre Aumont). Her physician husband Walter (Bill Travers) discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a very public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.

Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets the rakish and booze-soaked Tim (George Sanders). He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character.

Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.

Cast

Production

It was adapted for the screen by Karl Tunberg and directed by Ronald Neame. Vincente Minnelli was uncredited but involved in directing prior to leaving the project.

Reception

According to MGM records the film earned $250,000 in the US and Canada and $475,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $1,202,000.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

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