Encore
- Original title
- Encore
- Year
- 1951
- Running time
- 89 min.
- Country
United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Nigel Patrick
- Roland Culver
- Kay Walsh
- Noel Purcell
- Ronald Squire
- Jacques François
- John Laurie
- Glynis Johns
- Terence Morgan
- Ferdy Mayne
- William Somerset Maugham
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- Music
- Cinematography
Desmond Dickinson (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Drama | Anthology Film
- Movie Groups
- W. Somerset Maugham Adaptations | The Aesop's Fables Maugham Concerto Trilogy
- 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, puts his prim-and-proper businessman brother, George Ramsey 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. In a desperate attempt to silence the prattling busybody, the ship's officers browbeat a French steward, Pierre 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, who entertains...
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