Hunger no love... woman... or wealth could satisfy!
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
- 6.9
- 1946
- Released
- 2h 25m
Tyrone Power
Larry Darrell
Gene Tierney
Isabel Bradley
Herbert Marshall
W. Somerset Maugham
Anne Baxter
Sophie MacDonald
Clifton Webb
Elliott Templeton
John Payne
Gray Maturin
Lucile Watson
Louisa Bradley
Frank Latimore
Bob MacDonald
Elsa Lanchester
Miss Keith
Fritz Kortner
Kosti
John Wengraf
Joseph - Gray & Isabel's Butler
Cecil Humphreys
Holy Man
Harry Pilcer
Specialty Dancer
Cobina Wright Sr.
Princess Novemali
Henri Letondal
Police Inspector at Sophie's Death (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Party Guest (uncredited)
Reed Hadley
Party Waiter (voice) (uncredited)
Paul Everton
Banker (uncredited)
Shushella Shakari
Arab Girl
Bess Flowers
Country Club Party Guest
Forbes Murray
Dr. Maturin
Cosmo Sardo
Minor RoleEdna Harris
Guest (uncredited)Dorothy Kelly
Released
en
- #paris, france
- #based on novel or book
- #himalaya mountain range
- #hypnosis
- #engagement
- #wealth
- #enlightenment
- #american abroad
- #will
- #monastery
- #socialite
- #bohemian
- #socialite party
- #1920s
- #the meaning of life
- #drastic change of life
- #buddhist monastery
- #murdered fiancée
Reviews
W. Somerset Maugham's intense character studies are all but impossible to adequately reflect on screen - even in a film that takes 2½ hours. That said, Edmund Goulding assembled a strong cast here to deliver a complex and nuanced series of inter-connected stories that centred around the relationship between "Larry" (Tyrone Power) and "Isabel" (Gene Tierney). Suffering from itchy feet the former le
I will admit after seeing Gene Tierney in Laura a few years ago I am always looking for movies on TMC with her in them. While this movie doesn't live up to several others I have seen with Ms Tierney, such as: Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, or Heaven Can Wait, it is certainly worth a viewing. The cast is first rate and even though I am not a huge Tyrone Power fan, he won me over a tad in this film.