The Seventh Sin

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

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

• Eleanor Parker as Carol Carwin
• Bill Travers as Walter Carwin
• George Sanders as Tim Waddington
• Jean-Pierre Aumont as Paul Duvelle

Production

The film was originally announced as a vehicle for Ava Gardner.

It was adapted for the screen by Karl Tunberg and directed by Ronald Neame. Neame left the film during production and Vincente Minnelli took over uncredited.

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.

See also

• List of American films of 1957
• The Painted Veil (1934)
• The Painted Veil (2006)

External links

• The Seventh Sin at IMDb