Cast: William Somerset Maugham

Direction Ralph Barton

Cast Paul Robeson · Sinclair Lewis · Anita Loos · George Jean Nathan

Synopsis A home movie version of the Dumas play: a young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her.

Direction Ken Annakin · Arthur Crabtree · Harold French · Ralph Smart

Cast William Somerset Maugham · Basil Radford · Naunton Wayne · Ian Fleming

Synopsis Four of Somerset Maugham's short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author himself. In the first story, The Facts of Life, a young man with great potential on the tennis courts goes to Monte Carlo...

Direction Harold French · Pat Jackson · Anthony Pelissier

Cast Nigel Patrick · Roland Culver · Kay Walsh · Noel Purcell

Synopsis The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns the trials and tribulations a ne'er-do-well brother, Tom Ramsey, puts his prim-and-proper businessman brother, George Ramsey through. The escapades that...