W. Somerset Maugham Movies

A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.

An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.

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

A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s...

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...

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

Medical student Philip falls in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her...

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for...

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must...

Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two...

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that...

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

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...

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted.