W. Somerset Maugham Movies

  • 1932
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

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    Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it...

    Rain
  • 1984
    Overnight Sensation

    Overnight Sensation

    Overnight Sensation

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    Overnight Sensation is a 1984 short film directed by Jon Bloom, based loosely on W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Colonel's Lady." After...

    Overnight Sensation
  • 1955
    Three for the Show

    Three for the Show

    Three for the Show

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    This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late...

    Three for the Show
  • 1922
    The Ordeal

    The Ordeal

    The Ordeal

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    Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce...

    The Ordeal
  • 1965
    Kaakum Karangal

    Kaakum Karangal

    Kaakum Karangal

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    After her husband’s death, a woman struggles to raise her only son. Later, he becomes a famous surgeon and gets married to a wealthy girl but...

    Kaakum Karangal
  • 1919
    The Divorcee

    The Divorcee

    The Divorcee

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    Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara in her pursuit of romance and love.

    The Divorcee
  • 2006
    The Painted Veil

    The Painted Veil

    The Painted Veil

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    A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an...

    The Painted Veil
  • 1951
    Encore

    Encore

    Encore

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    Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...

    Encore
  • 1940
    The Letter

    The Letter

    The Letter

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    After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

    The Letter
  • 1936
    Secret Agent

    Secret Agent

    Secret Agent

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    During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a...

    Secret Agent
  • 1974
    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

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    Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different...

    Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
  • 1936
    The Tenth Man

    The Tenth Man

    The Tenth Man

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    George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and...

    The Tenth Man
  • 1917
    The Land of Promise

    The Land of Promise

    The Land of Promise

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    Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

    The Land of Promise
  • 1980
    Wilson's Reward

    Wilson's Reward

    Wilson's Reward

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    A missionary in the West Indies tries to change the ways of a drunken womanizer.

    Wilson's Reward
  • 1955
    Three Cases of Murder

    Three Cases of Murder

    Three Cases of Murder

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    An atmospheric British omnibus film presenting three tales of murder and the supernatural. In “In the Picture,” a museum attendant is...

    Three Cases of Murder
  • 1935
    The Right to Live

    The Right to Live

    The Right to Live

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    A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.

    The Right to Live
  • 1973
    The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny

    The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny

    The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny

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    Hosny suffers from terrifying nightmares, so he resorts to a psychiatrist to help him

    The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny
  • 1931
    The Holy Flames

    The Holy Flames

    The Holy Flames

    01931HD

    This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a...

    The Holy Flames
  • 1947
    The Unfaithful

    The Unfaithful

    The Unfaithful

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    Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her...

    The Unfaithful
  • 1929
    The Sacred Flame

    The Sacred Flame

    The Sacred Flame

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    Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is...

    The Sacred Flame