The Seventh Sin (1957) (MOD) "Stargirl"

The Seventh Sin (1957) (MOD) "Stargirl"From W. Somerset Maugham's popular 1925 novel about an unloving marriage at a flash point and a selfish adulteress who travels a turbulent path to redemption, this second film version of The Painted Veil fixes Eleanor Parker (of the 1946 Maugham based Of Human Bondage), Bill Travers and Jean Pierre Aumont as the points of a fraught romantic triangle in 1949 Hong Kong. When her affair with a married man (Aumont) is discovered by her bacteriologist

But that's changing for this roving salesman with a roving eye

the gang teams up with Bobby and his culinary pal Giada De Laurentiis

rampaging wildebeests turn their trek into a struggle for survival

a reminder of an era that was just coming to grips with the sordid side of reality

Controversial and popular from the moment it opened

Alan Burnett and Dave Gibbons

Marshal based at an Antarctic research station

and Benedict Cumberbatch

It's an unlikely beginning to a great friendship

From the Harry Potter movies comes Harry Potter as a stylized 18" Pop

But the era of dream factories has gone

One of the wittiest and most heartwarming Hong Kong films of its era