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Encore *** (1951, Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Kay Walsh, Glynis Johns, Terence Morgan, Noel Purcell, Ronald Squire) – Classic Movie Review 10,077

The 1951 comedy drama Encore is the third and final portmanteau-compendium-anthology movie of W Somerset Maugham stories which by and large keeps up the standard of Quartet (1948) and Trio (1950). It was again a […]

Jul, 23

Trio *** (1950, James Hayter, Michael Hordern, Anne Crawford, Nigel Patrick, Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 10,076

Directors Ken Annakin and Harold French’s 1950 drama Trio is the second W Somerset Maugham anthology film (after Quartet, a hit in 1948), with three well cast, amusing and satisfyingly enjoyable yarns. The three short […]

Jul, 23

Quartet **** (1948, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Susan Shaw, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3180

In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]

Dec, 22

South Pacific *** (2001, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Rade Serbedzija) – Classic Movie Review 2182

Director Richard Pearce’s 2001 TV movie remake of the 1958 big-screen favourite is bright, tuneful, well made and handsomely produced, as Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic 1949 Broadway musical comes to the small screen […]

Feb, 19

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