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Quick Info

Rating

6.1/10

Release1942

Runtime1h 29m

StatusReleased

Budget$401,000

RevenueN/A

Production

David L. Loew Productions

Movie

The Moon and Sixpence

1942

1h 29m

6.1

Drama

Synopsis

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.

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