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.
Cast
- Glynis Johns as Stella Cotman
- Nigel Patrick as Tom Ramsay
- Roland Culver as George Ramsay
- Alison Leggatt as Freda Ramsay
- Charles Victor as Mr. Bateman
- Peter Graves as Philip Cronshaw
- Margaret Withers as Mrs. Bateman
- Margaret Vyner as Gertrude Wilmot
- John Laurie as Andrews, Engineer
- Noel Purcell as Tom, Captain