Overview

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", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.

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Cast

Glynis Johns

Stella Cotman

Nigel Patrick

Tom Ramsay

Roland Culver

George Ramsay

Alison Leggatt

Freda Ramsay

Charles Victor

Mr. Bateman

Peter Graves

Philip Cronshaw

Margaret Withers

Mrs. Bateman

Margaret Vyner

Gertrude Wilmot

John Laurie

Andrews, Engineer

Noel Purcell

Tom, Captain

Ronald Squire

Doctor

W. Somerset Maugham

Self and Narrator