Temptation (1946)

Temptation is a 1946 American film noir thriller film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin and Paul Lukas. The film was based on Robert Smythe Hichens’s 1909 novel Bella Donna.

Director – Irving Pichel

Writers – James B. Fagan (play), Robert Hichens (from the novel “Bella Donna”), Robert Thoeren (screenplay)

Cast –
Merle Oberon as Ruby
George Brent as Nigel Armine
Charles Korvin as Mahoud Baroudi
Paul Lukas as Sir Meyer Isaacson
Lenore Ulric as Marie
Arnold Moss as Ahmed Effendi
Robert Capa as Hamza
Aubrey Mather as Dr. Harding
Ludwig Stössel as Dr. Mueller
André Charlot as Prof. Dupont
Suzanne Cloutier as Yvonne Dupont
Gloria Lloyd as Jean McCormick

Watch “Temptation” (1946)

Plot

In the 1890s, a London courtesan snares a loving but naive Egyptologist, marries him and moves to Egypt. She quickly becomes bored and embarks on an affair with Mamhoud Baroudi. She falls in love with him, and they plot to kill her husband.