The Great Sinner

Fedja (Gregory Peck) narrating a flashback, recalling his first meeting with Pauline (Ava Gardner), en route to Wiesbaden, in Robert Siodmak's The Great Sinner 1949, based on Dostoyevsky's The Gambler.

Writers Ladislas Fodor and Christopher Isherwood preserved some of Dostoyevsky's "The Gambler," in this chest-heaving scene between Fedja (Gregory Peck) and Pauline (Ava Gardner) in The Great Sinner, 1949, directed by Robert Siodmak.

Fedja (Gregory Peck) redeems a pawn ticket for a dead friend, meeting Emma (Agnes Moorehead), writing, then chatting with new friend Pauline (Ava Gardner), in The Great Sinner, 1949, based on Dostoyevsky's The Gambler.

The ambitious and mostly seamless opening, introducing writer Fedja (Gregory Peck) near death, from Robert Siodmak's The Great Sinner, 1949, based on Dostoyevsky's The Gambler, also starring Ava Gardner.

Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner star in director Robert Siodmak's The Great Sinner (1949), adapted from a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.