The Moon and Sixpence

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Moon And Sixpence, 1942.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Moon And Sixpence, 1942.

Opening with Herbert Marshall, as "Wolfe," not for the last time playing the first person author narrating from a W. Somerset Maugham novel, from director Albert Lewin's The Moon And Sixpence, 1942, also starring George Sanders.

British writer Wolfe (Herbert Marshall) arrives in Paris chasing stockbroker Strickland (George Sanders), who's abandoned his family back in London, in Albert Lewin's The Moon And Sixpence, 1942, from the W. Somerset Maugham novel.

Little-esteemed Dutch painter Stroeve (Steve Geray) brings writer Wolfe (Herbert Marshall) to meet British ex-pat painter Strickland (George Sanders) in Paris, in The Moon And Sixpence, 1942, from W. Somerset Maugham's novel based on the life of Gaugin.