Seven Sinners

United States

1940

87 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR John Meehan, Harry Tugend, Ladislas Fodor, László Vadnay

CAST Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford, Anna Lee, Mischa Auer, Billy Gilbert, Richard Carle, Samuel S. Hinds, Oskar Homolka, Reginald Denny, Vince Barnett, Herbert Rawlinson, James Craig, William Bakewell, Antonio Moreno, Russell Hicks, William B. Davidson

MUSIC Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner

SOUND Bernard B. Brown, Robert Pritchard

Synopsis

Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes very popular with U.S. navymen by performing at the ‘Seven Sinners’. A navy Lieutenant is attracted to Bijou despite the Governor’s machinations to keep them apart, and the competing affections of local mobster, Antro. Will the Lieutenant give up the navy for Bijou, and will he survive Antro’s forces? —IMDb

Director

Tay Garnett

Tay Garnett (born William Taylor Garnett 13 June 1894 – 3 October 1977) was an American film director and writer.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in World War I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathé and began to direct films in 1928. Among his films are One Way Passage (1932), China Seas (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), Seven Sinners (1940), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), The Cross of Lorraine (1943), and Bataan (1943). He is best known as the director of the 1946 thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice with John Garfield and Lana Turner. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) with Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming was also well-received. Garnett also worked in radio as a writer, director and narrator. He created a show titled “Three Sheets to the Wind”(1942) which starred John Wayne as Dan O’Brien, an American private eye posing as a drunk on a luxury liner… read more