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The Moon and Sixpence (Season 3, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Drama

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker 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 ...See moreLoosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker 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. Written by Yepok See less
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Clive Exton (screenplay) | W. Somerset Maugham (novel)
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Updated Nov 12, 1967

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Nov 12, 1967 (United Kingdom)
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