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The Moon and Sixpence

film by Lewin [1942]
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  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
    Albert Lewin

    …he directed his first film, The Moon and Sixpence, an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham story about an unconventional artist (played by George Sanders), loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Lewin also wrote the screenplay, as he would for all the films that he would direct. After…

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    …he directed his first film, The Moon and Sixpence, an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham story about an unconventional artist (played by George Sanders), loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Lewin also wrote the screenplay, as he would for all the films that he would direct. After…

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