Quartet is a 1948 British anthology film with four segments, each based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. The author appears at the start and end of the movie to introduce the stories and comment about his writing career. It was successful enough to produce two sequels, Trio (1950) and Encore (1951), and popularised the compendium film format, leading to films such as O. Henry's Full House in 1952. The screenplays for the stories were all written by R. C. Sherriff. The Facts of Life Based on "The Facts of Life", included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before. Director: Ralph Smart Cinematographer: Ray Elton Cast Jack Watling as Nicky Mai Zetterling as Jeanne Basil Radford as Henry Garnet Angela Baddeley as Mrs. Garnet Naunton Wayne as Leslie Ian Fleming as Ralph Jack Raine as Thomas James Robertson Justice as Branksome Plot Despite their reservations, Mr. and Mrs. Garnet allow their promising tennis player son, nineteen-year-old Nicky Garnet, to travel by himself to Monte Carlo to compete in a tournament. Mr. Garnet gives him some advice: never gamble, never lend money, and don't have anything to do with women. On the last night of his stay, he disregards all three: he wins a large amount of money at roulette and meets a beautiful woman named Jeanne, who borrows from him before he can react. Later, she repays him, then takes him dancing at a nightclub. It is so late, his hotel has closed for the night. She offers to let him sleep on her sofa. Later that night, he awakens to find her stealing his winnings. He pretends to be asleep and sees her hide the money in a vase. After she leaves, he retrieves the money. The next morning, on the plane returning home, he counts his money and finds there is more than there should be. A friend suggests that Jeanne had stored her own funds in the same hiding place. Upon his return home, his father laments to his friends that his son ignored everything he had told him and profited from it. The Alien Corn Director: Harold French Cinematographer: Ray Elton Cast Dirk Bogarde as George Bland Raymond Lovell as Sir Frederick Bland Irene Browne as Lady Bland Honor Blackman as Paula Françoise Rosay as Lea Markart Mary Hinton as Aunt Maud Plot On George Bland's twenty-first birthday, his father, of