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Encore. A new, expertly packaged trio of entertaining short stories by Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham (TIME, April...
Encore. A new, expertly packaged trio of entertaining short stories by Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham (TIME, April...
Encore. A new, expertly packaged trio of entertaining short stories by Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham (TIME, April 7).The Young and the Damned. A savage juvenile-delinquency drama with a largely amateur cast, filmed in Mexico by Spain's Luis Buñuel (TIME, March...
Encore (Rank; Paramount] brings Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham back for a merited cinematic reprise with an ex pertly packaged omnibus of three enter taining short stories: i ) The ironic Ant and the Grasshopper, in which a ne'er-do-well playboy (Nigel Patrick) marries the third richest girl in the world, buys back the family estate his hard-working brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother...
Encore has polished acting, direction and writing by three different sets of Brit. ish film talents. But the real star of the picture is that skilled old party, Somerset Maugham, who is seen in the garden of his Cote d'Azur villa as he introduces each of the stories. Author Maugham's latest screen encore serves as a reminder to epic-sated moviegoers that good things often come in small packages...