| Encore | |
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| Directed by | Pat Jackson Anthony Pelissier Harold French |
| Written by | T. E. B. Clarke Arthur Macrae Eric Ambler |
| Produced by | Antony Darnborough |
| Starring | Glynis Johns Nigel Patrick Kay Walsh Roland Culver Ronald Squire Terence Morgan Noel Purcell |
| Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
| Edited by | Alfred Roome |
| Music by | Richard Addinsell |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) Paramount (USA) |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £172,000 (by 1953)[1] |
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.[2]
- ^ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Encore". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 2009-01-17.