Encore (1951)

Directed by

Anthony Pelissier, Pat Jackson, Harold French

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three separate short stories by W. Somerset Maugham are each dramatized. Maugham himself appears to introduce them from his garden. The stories involve different characters facing small moral dilemmas or ironic twists of fate.

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What happens

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise" (from the 1947 collection of Maugham stories Creatures of Circumstance), directed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette" (from the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before), directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. Maugham introduces each part of the film with a piece to camera from his garden on the French Riviera. Encore was the final film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio. The film was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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