| Trio | |
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| Directed by | Ken Annakin Harold French |
| Written by | W. Somerset Maugham Noel Langley R. C. Sherriff |
| Based on | three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham |
| Produced by | Antony Darnborough |
| Starring | Anne Crawford Roland Culver Kathleen Harrison James Hayter Nigel Patrick Michael Rennie Jean Simmons Naunton Wayne |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth Reginald H. Wyer |
| Edited by | Alfred Roome |
| Music by | John Greenwood Muir Mathieson |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) Paramount Pictures (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £147,000 (by 1953)[1] |
Trio (also known as W. Somerset Maugham's Trio) is a 1950 British anthology film based on three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Verger", "Mr Know-All" and "Sanatorium". Ken Annakin directed "The Verger" and "Mr Know-All", while Harold French was responsible for "Sanatorium".
Trio is the second of a film trilogy, all consisting of adaptations of Maugham's stories, preceded by the 1948 Quartet and followed by the 1951 Encore. Production budget of the film was shared by the J. Arthur Rank Organization and Paramount.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound, Recording (Cyril Crowhurst)[2] and was the final one released under the Gainsborough Pictures banner.
- ^ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
- ^ "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 August 2011.