Main Cast: Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt, Kay Walsh, Glynis Johns, Charles Victor, Ronald Squire
Release Year: 1951
Country: UK
Run Time: 85 minutes
Plot
The producers of Quartet and Trio concluded their cycle with this omnibus film, which features three stories based, as in the previous film, on tales by W. Somerset Maugham. "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns Tom Ramsey (Nigel Patrick), a fiscally unstable young man who is constantly borrowing money from his brother George (Roland Culver). Eventually, George falls on hard times and is forced to sell the family estate, just as Tom marries a wealthy woman and is in a position to purchase it. In "Winter Cruise," Miss Reid (Kay Walsh) is an aging spinster taking a voyage aboard a cargo ship. She has little to do but engage the others on board in conversation, which the passengers find so annoying that they arrange a ship-board romance for her with Pierre (Jacques Francois), a porter, in the hopes that it will keep her quiet. And "Gigolo and Gigolette" features Glynis Johns as Stella Cotman, whose husband Syd (Terence Morgan) earns his living as a performer in a high-wire act. Stella is terribly worried that Syd's risky profession will lead to his death, so she takes their life's savings to a casino in hopes of winning enough that he can retire. However, her plan hardly goes as she hoped. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Terence Morgan - Syd Cotman [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Margaret Withers - Mrs. Bateman; Margaret Vyner - Gertrude Wilmot; Dorothy Bramhall - Secretary; Patricia Raine - Office Girl; Campbell Cotts - Club Member; Michael Trubshawe - Ascot Man; Noel Purcell - Captain [Winter Cruise]; John Laurie - Engineer [Winter Cruise]; Jacques Francois - Pierre [Winter Cruise]; John Horsley - Mate [Winter Cruise]; Joan Harben - Miss Price [Winter Cruise]; David Hutcheson - Sandy Wescott [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Charles Goldner - Paco Espinal [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Martin Miller - Carlo Penezzi [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Heather Thatcher - Eva Barrett [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Guido Lorraine - Russian Prince [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Daphne Barker - Countess [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne - [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Mary Merrall - Flora Penezzi [Gigolo And Gigolette]; John Boxer - [Gigolo And Gigolette]; Peter Graves - Philip Cronshaw
