“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.
Albert Lewin
David L. Loew
Stanley Kramer
Albert Lewin
John F. Seitz
Dimitri Tiomkin
George Sanders
Charles Strickland
Herbert Marshall
Geoffrey Wolfe
Doris Dudley
Blanche Stroeve
Eric Blore
Capt. Nichols
Albert Bassermann
Dr. Coutras
Florence Bates
Tiare Johnson
Steven Geray
Dirk Stroeve
Elena Verdugo
Ata
Rondo Hatton
The Leper (uncredited)
Devi Wani
Ata
CinemaSerf
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 P...
catfactory
I 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 story is part of being human. Even if no one sees what...
David L. Loew Productions