| Quartet | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Mai_Zetterling.jpeg) Mai Zetterling from a promotional postcard for the film | |
| Directed by | Ken Annakin Arthur Crabtree Harold French Ralph Smart |
| Written by | R. C. Sherriff W. Somerset Maugham (stories) |
| Produced by | Antony Darnborough |
| Starring | Hermione Baddeley Dirk Bogarde Mervyn Johns Cecil Parker Basil Radford Françoise Rosay Susan Shaw Linden Travers Naunton Wayne Mai Zetterling |
| Music by | John Greenwood |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £168,000[1] or £163,000[2] |
| Box office | £122,000 (by 1953)[1] |
Quartet is a 1948 British anthology film with four segments, each based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. The author appears at the start and end of the movie to introduce the stories and comment about his writing career. It was successful enough to produce two sequels, Trio (1950) and Encore (1951), and popularised the compendium film format, leading to films such as O. Henry's Full House in 1952.
The screenplays for the stories were all written by R. C. Sherriff.
- ^ a b Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 210
- ^ "British Production Survey". Kinematograph Year Book 1949. p. 152.