Encore - 3 Stories by W. Somerset Maugham

Encore - 3 Stories by W. Somerset Maugham (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1951 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Harold French
Pat Jackson

Written By:
Eric Ambler
T.E.B. Clarke

Actors:
Nigel Patrick ..... Tom Ramsay (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Roland Culver ..... George Ramsay (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Alison Leggatt ..... Freda Ramsay (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Charles Victor ..... Mr. Bateman (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Peter Graves ..... Philip Cronshaw (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Margaret Withers ..... Mrs. Bateman (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Margaret Vyner ..... Gertrude Wilmot (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Dorothy Bramhall ..... Secretary (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Patricia Raine ..... Office Girl (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Campbell Cotts ..... Club Member (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Michael Trubshawe ..... Ascot Man (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
Kay Walsh ..... Miss Molly Reid (segment "Winter Cruise")
Noel Purcell ..... Tom, Captain (segment "Winter Cruise")
Ronald Squire ..... Doctor (segment "Winter Cruise")
John Laurie ..... Andrews, Engineer (segment "Winter Cruise")

Synopsis:

The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' concerns the trials and tribulations a ne'er-do-well brother, Tom Ramsey (Nigel Patrick), puts his prim-and-proper businessman brother, George Ramsey (Roland Culver) through. The escapades that drive George to absolute distraction eventually wins the hand of the world's third richest girl, Margaret Vyne), for shiftless Tom; 'Winter Cruise' finds the crew of a cargo boat becoming unglued by the endless chatter of a spinster passenger named Miss Reid (Kay Walsh.) In a desperate attempt to silence the prattling busybody, the ship's officers browbeat a French steward, Pierre (Jacques Francois) into making love to her. The results provide some astounding surprises for the officers, Pierre, and, for certain, Miss Reid; In 'The Gigolo and the Gigolette' segment, beautiful daredevil Stella Cotman (Glynis Johns), who entertains the jaded guests of a resort hotel by diving nightly from an eighty-foot platform into a flaming tank, is losing her nerve.

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