W. Somerset Maugham Movies

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice:...

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy...

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family,...

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

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

A lawyer defends a wealthy woman accused of murder. She claims it was self-defense. The lawyer is not sure.

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...

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

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

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she...

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...

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

A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...