Rather a good whodunit. It's the sort of thing that's been seen a million times before and since, but it's done well. Of course, strictly speaking it's the middle class bit of town that's on trial. Following the success of Quartet , here's another compendium of Somerset Maugham short stories. The cast is less starry, but the stories are better realised.
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R.C. Sherriff, Noel Langley. When a strange cloud descends in the Alps, decapitated corpses are discovered. It works, but the strains of the budget are very apparent. Script adapt . Technicolor Victoriana in which Jean Kent works her way up from chorus girl to duchess.