Quartet (1948)
Quartet (1948)
Plot.
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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Cast & Crew.
Basil Radford
Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Naunton Wayne
Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life")
Mai Zetterling
Jeanne
Ian Fleming
Ralph (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jack Raine
Thomas (segment "The Facts of Life")
Ken Annakin
Director
Dirk Bogarde
George Bland
Arthur Crabtree
Director
Cecil Parker
Colonel George Peregrine
Harold French
Director
Ralph Smart
Director
Hermione Baddeley
Beatrice Sunbury
W. Somerset Maugham
Writer
Honor Blackman
Paula
Angela Baddeley
Mrs. Garnet
R.C. Sherriff
Writer
James Robertson Justice
Branksome
Jack Watling
Nicky Garnet
Raymond Lovell
Sir Frederick Bland
Irene Browne
Lady Bland
Françoise Rosay
Lea Makart
Maurice Denham
Coroner
James Hayter
Foreman of the Jury
Bernard Lee
Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor
Frederick Leister
Prison Governor
George Cole
Herbert Sunbury
Mervyn Johns
Samuel Sunbury
Susan Shaw
Betty Baker Sunbury
Nora Swinburne
Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine
Lyn Evans
Bannock
Claud Allister
1st. Club Man
Wilfrid Hyde-White
2nd. Club Man
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Quartet is a 1948 British anthology film with four segments, each based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. The author appears at the start and end of the movie to introduce the stories and comment about his writing career. It was successful enough to produce two sequels, Trio (1950) and Encore (1951), and popularised the compendium film format, leading to films such as O. Henry's Full House in 1952.
The screenplays for the stories were all written by R. C. Sherriff.