Encore (1951)

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Country: UK
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1952-07-01
Director: Harold French , Pat Jackson , Anthony Pelissier
Writers: Eric Ambler , T.E.B. Clarke , Arthur Macrae
Language: English | French
Stars: Nigel Patrick , Roland Culver , Alison Leggatt (1904–1990) , Charles Victor , Peter Graves , Margaret Withers , Margaret Vyner , Dorothy Bramhall , Patricia Raine , Campbell Cotts
Runtime: 89 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: W. Somerset Maugham's Encore (United Kingdom) , Gigolo e gigolette (Italy) , De tre akkorder (Denmark) , Encore (Denmark) , Rapsódia da Vida (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Da capo (Sweden) , Encore (France, French Republic) , Encore , Cada vida es un mundo (Spain) , O apahis kai i gigolette (Greece) , Ο απάχης και η ζιγκολέτα (Greece) , Encore (Romania) , Dakapo , Todavía más (Spain) , 3 kohtaloa (Finland) , Encore (United Kingdom) , Gigolô e Gigollete (Brazil) , Encore (Canada)
Plot: 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 drive George to absolute distraction eventually wins the hand of the world's third richest girl, Margaret Vyne, for shiftless Tom; "Winter Cruise" finds the crew of a cargo boat becoming unglued by the endless chatter of a spinster passenger named Miss Reid. In a desperate attempt to silence the prattling busybody, the ship's officers browbeat a French steward, Pierre into making love to her. The results provide some astounding surprises for the officers, Pierre, and, for certain, Miss Reid; In "The Gigolo and the Gigolette" segment, beautiful daredevil Stella Cotman, who entertains the jaded guests of a resort hotel by diving nightly from an eighty-foot platform into a flaming tank, is losing her nerve.
IMDB:tt0044586