A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
June 28, 1957
Original Title:
The Seventh Sin
Alternate Titles:
爱在遥远的附近
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 94
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a 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 booze-soaked Tim. 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.
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Art Direction:
William A. Horning
Daniel B. Cathcart
Assistant Director:
William McGarry
Director:
Ronald Neame
Vincente Minnelli
Director of Photography:
Ray June
Editor:
Gene Ruggiero
Novel:
W. Somerset Maugham
Original Music Composer:
Miklós Rózsa
Producer:
David Lewis
Screenplay:
Karl Tunberg
Set Decoration:
Fred M. MacLean
Edwin B. Willis
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