Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
George Sanders
as Charles Strickland
Herbert Marshall
as Geoffrey Wolfe
Doris Dudley
as Blanche Stroeve
Eric Blore
as Capt. Nichols
Albert Bassermann
as Dr. Coutras
Florence Bates
as Tiare Johnson
Steven Geray
as Dirk Stroeve
Elena Verdugo
as Ata
Rondo Hatton
as The Leper (uncredited)
Devi Wani
as Ata
