The Great Sinner (1949)






A young writer goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Great Sinner

Deborah Lazaroff Alpi
Robert Siodmak, A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Film Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1998

Books with an entry on The Great Sinner

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003