Quartet
Quartet
Release: 1948-10-26
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 6.2
Drama
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."
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Gainsborough Pictures
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Cast
Dirk Bogarde
as George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Frederick Leister
as Prison Governor (segment "The Kite")
Mervyn Johns
as Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Ernest Thesiger
as Henry Dashwood (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
John Salew
as John Coleman (critic) (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Johnny Briggs
as Boy on Common (segment "The Kite")
Ian Fleming
as Ralph (segment "The Facts of Life")
Clive Morton
as Henry Blane (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
W. Somerset Maugham
as Himself
James Hayter
as Foreman of the Jury (segment "The Alien Corn")
Claud Allister
as 1st. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Felix Aylmer
as Martin (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Margaret Withers
as Gushing Woman (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Jack Raine
as Thomas (segment "The Facts of Life")
Nigel Buchanan
as John (segment "The Facts of Life")
Honor Blackman
as Paula (segment "The Alien Corn")
Françoise Rosay
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
George Cole
as Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Susan Shaw
as Betty Baker Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Ernest Butcher
as Blane's Clerk (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Mai Zetterling
as Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
Raymond Lovell
as Sir Frederick Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Maurice Denham
as Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn")
George Merritt
as Prison Officer (segment "The Kite")
Bernard Lee
as Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
Hermione Baddeley
as Beatrice Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Wilfrid Hyde-White
as 2nd. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Hal Osmond
as Bookshop Assistant (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Basil Radford
as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jack Watling
as Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Nora Swinburne
as Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
J.H. Roberts
as West (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
James Robertson Justice
as Branksome (segment "The Facts of Life")
Irene Browne
as Lady Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Cyril Chamberlain
as Reporter (segment "The Kite")
Yvonne Owen
as 1st. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Marcel Poncin
as Frenchman (segment "The Alien Corn")
Cecil Parker
as Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Henry Edwards
as Duke of Heverel (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Linden Travers
as Daphne (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Cyril Raymond
as Railway Passenger (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Naunton Wayne
as Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life")
