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