W. Somerset Maugham

Basil Radford

Naunton Wayne

Mai Zetterling

Ian Fleming

Jack Raine

Dirk Bogarde

Cecil Parker

Hermione Baddeley

Honor Blackman

Angela Baddeley

James Robertson Justice

Jack Watling

Raymond Lovell

Irene Browne

Françoise Rosay

Maurice Denham

James Hayter

Bernard Lee

Frederick Leister

George Cole

Mervyn Johns

Susan Shaw

Nora Swinburne

Lyn Evans

Claud Allister

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Ernest Thesiger

Henry Edwards

Linden Travers

Felix Aylmer

Clive Morton

Johnny Briggs

Ralph Smart

Arthur Crabtree

Ken Annakin

R.C. Sherriff

Harold French

Fred Mannin

Eric Cass

Bernard Lewis

Ray Elton

Reginald H. Wyer

Drama

Quartet

Gainsborough Pictures

United Kingdom

English

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Introduced by the man himself, this is a compendium of four short stories from W. Somerset Maugham. Each deals with a scenario that looks at human nature, love, trust and integrity amongst a myriad of other emotions with the four directors taking a different slant to each of the tales. The cast is superb - all four feature perfectly fitting characters with the likes of Cecil Parker, Nora Swinburne, Mai Zetterling, Ian Fleming, George Cole, Honor Blackman and Dirk Bogarde all working their magic with the gently comedic writing. My favourite is probably the last one ("The Colonel's Lady") with Parker and Swinburne - it has something particularly classy and poignant about it as a married couple for over 30 years hit a few unexpected bumps on their otherwise tranquil road - she has published a book suggesting that she may have been unfaithful some years ago - before the couple address the effects time has had on their relationship. It is engagingly constructed and the stories, though different, are complementary to each other leaving us with a feeling akin to enjoying a good three course meal...

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