Encore 1951 (W. Somerset Maugham)-2(2)

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" (from the 1947 collection of Maugham stories Creatures of Circumstance), helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae;
"Gigolo and Gigolette" (from the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before), directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler.
Maugham introduces each part of the film with a piece to camera from his garden on the French Riviera. "Encore" is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio. The film was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival