Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

"The program presented on this DVD was originally a live TV broadcast and was captured via a technique known as Kinescope recording, using a 16mm film camera fixed on a television monitor to record the broadcast. It was the only available way to record live broadcasts at that time and this recording serves as the only document of this historical broadcast. The picture and the sound quality presented here is proportionate to the limits of the Kinescope format."--Container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.

Full screen.

Directed by Robert Mulligan ; produced by David Susskind ; written by S. Lee Pogostin.

Laurence Olivier, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Denholm Elliott, Cyril Cusack, Murray Matheson, Jean Marsh.

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to become a painter in the South Seas. Loosely inspired by Paul Gauguin's life, this is the story of Charles Strickland, a stock broker who, to follow his dream of becoming a painter, leaves his life behind and he becomes an awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty. By W. Somerset Maugham.

Rating: Not Rated

DVD, NTSC all regions, 4:3 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital mono; color.

English audio.