Overview
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."
Cast
W. Somerset Maugham
Himself
Basil Radford
Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Naunton Wayne
Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life")
Mai Zetterling
Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
Ian Fleming
Ralph (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jack Raine
Thomas (segment "The Facts of Life")
Angela Baddeley
Mrs. Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
James Robertson Justice
Branksome (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jack Watling
Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Nigel Buchanan
John (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jean Cavall
Cabaret Artist (segment "The Facts of Life")
Dirk Bogarde
George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Honor Blackman
Paula (segment "The Alien Corn")
Raymond Lovell
Sir Frederick Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Irene Browne
Lady Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
George Thorpe
Uncle John (segment "The Alien Corn")
Françoise Rosay
Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Maurice Denham
Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn")
Mary Hinton
Aunt Maud (segment "The Alien Corn")
James Hayter
Foreman of the Jury (segment "The Alien Corn")
George Merritt
Prison Officer (segment "The Kite")
George Cole
Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Bernard Lee
Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
Frederick Leister
Prison Governor (segment "The Kite")
David Cole
Herbert (as a boy) (segment "The Kite")
Hermione Baddeley
Beatrice Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Mervyn Johns
Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Susan Shaw
Betty Baker Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Cyril Chamberlain
Reporter (segment "The Kite")
Cecil Parker
Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Nora Swinburne
Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Lyn Evans
Bannock (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Claud Allister
1st. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Wilfrid Hyde-White
2nd. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Ernest Thesiger
Henry Dashwood (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Henry Edwards
Duke of Heverel (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Linden Travers
Daphne (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Felix Aylmer
Martin (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Clive Morton
Henry Blane (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
J.H. Roberts
West (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Cyril Raymond
Railway Passenger (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
John Salew
John Coleman (critic) (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Margaret Withers
Gushing Woman (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Yvonne Owen
1st. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Margaret Thorburn
2nd. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Hal Osmond
Bookshop Assistant (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Ernest Butcher
Blane's Clerk (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Johnny Briggs
Boy on Common (segment "The Kite")
Arthur Denton
Man on Common (segment "The Kite")
Marcel Poncin
Frenchman (segment "The Alien Corn")
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