Trivia: Anthony Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role of Paul Gaugin, even though he was only on screen for eight minutes.
Lust for Life (1956)
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Directed by: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Van Gogh cuts his ear off, he smothers his right ear with a towel to stop the bleeding. As the movie continues, we notice that throughout the whole movie his left ear was the one missing not the right ear as initially portrayed.
Vincent Van Gogh: I tried to show a place where a man can ruin himself, go mad... commit a crime.
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