Three Films By Somerset Maugham - Trio / Encore / Quartet [DVD] | ![Three Films By Somerset Maugham - Trio / Encore / Quartet [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51foYoz3bwL._SL500_.jpg) | Directors: Ken Annakin, Harold French, Pat Jackson, Anthony Pelissier, Arthur Crabtree
Actors: Anne Crawford, Roland Culver, Kathleen Harrison, James Hayter, Nigel Patrick
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Format: Box set, Black & White, PAL
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 279 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5027626276447
ASIN: B000V4IOB2
Release Date: October 1, 2007
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 3 films by somerset maugham April 21, 2010
colin palmer
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed this dvd. Somerset Maugham is a classic writer. His 3 short stories are brought here with a sterling cast and direction. I wish there were more available.
 Somerset Maugham, perhaps the 'best of' March 22, 2010
Mikex (South Yorkshire)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
'Quartet' is the winner here. The 'kite' story sticks in the mind. George Cole makes an early, and memorable, appearance here.
So, it is paired with (should that be 'trioed with?) more S-M short stories. This is a good set at a good price, and for anyone into short stories, S-M in particular, this is recommended viewing.
Then again, when talking of the 'best of', shouldn't forget the likes of 'The Moon and Sixpence', and 'Hobson's Choice', one of the best of all comedies.
Somerset Maugham October 25, 2009
G. M. J. Tomlinson (Essex, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A man of dubious character, well known for his use of his friends and acquaintances in his work and often without their permission or approval, but frankly the work is so good you're just grateful it wasn't you!
The discs definitely decrease in quality of story, but even the slowest is worth watching.
a great observer of human behaviour and hypocrisy, well written and entertaining.
 "Hello My Name Is Max Kelada" July 15, 2009
Mark Pearce (UK)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
In 1948 Gainsborough decided with the input of the author himself W Somerset Maugham to develop four of his short stories into a movie.The result was Quartet which became such a raging success that it spawned two sequels Trio(1950) and Encore (1951).
The pity here is that the most celebrated Quartet is pretty well outshone by it's sequels.
In Quartet the first three-"Facts of Life" with Jack Watling as an impressionable young tennis player abroad;"The Alien Corn" with Dirk Bogarde as an aspiring pianist and "The Kite" with George Cole are all fairly trite and dull but the last entry "The Colonel's Lady about a country lady of means(Nora Swinburne)whose small book of poetry is a publishing sensation much to the consternation of her unloving husband(Cecil Parker)who finds his well ordered life coming apart at the seams as he struggles to keep a lid on his jealousy.Both Swinburne and Parker are quite brilliant.
In the far more consistent Trio,James Hayter and the wonderous Kathleen Harrison are lovely in "The Verger"-a story of exquisite charm about the late blossoming of ambition and tolerance;"Mr Knowall"features Nigel Patrick as the "very british"Max Kelada which has a very nice payoff and "The Sanitorium"which has a very rich cast and passes the time pleasantly enough but doesn't really go anywhere.
In Encore we find Nigel Patrick at the top of his form in"The Ant And The Grasshopper"about two brothers with very differing views on responsibility;"Winter Cruise"has Kay Walsh as a chatterbox whose constant talking drives the crew to arrange a romance for her(the ending is nicely bittersweet)and "Gigolo and Gigolette"a misfire about a high diver saved only by Glynis Johns who looks very nice.
Overall this three disc set is a bargain but be wary of those rose tinted spectacles reviews,when it is good(The Verger,Mr Knowall)it is very good,when it is bad(Facts of life,Gigolo...)it is pretty bad.
Trio, Quartet, Encore July 4, 2009
Oburoni nyansafo (London)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
An invaluable collection for the cineaste, these three compilations adapted from W Somerset Maugham's short stories give a fascinating picture of England's tastes, values and attitudes towards class and foreigners. Whether it's Cecil Parker's rural Colonel unable to understand his wife, Dirk Bogarde upsettng his parents by wishing to play the piano as a profession, James Hayter retrieving his dignity after being dismissed from his job as a verger or Nigel Patrick as the very unEnglish Mr Knowall, these films show a postwar Britain reasserting an identity which seems alien today; a world of deference to rank in which all were expected to keep their station.
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