35 Replies to “Quartet (Dirk Bogarde) (1948)”

  1. Thank you! I love English films, blame my heritage. And it was an absolute delight to see so many of my favorite British character actors!!❤️?

  3. The brash males then seem tame by today's larger-than-life swagger we have to put up with from the ladies, and not only the leading ones.

  10. I’ve always liked Magham’s writing. My favourite film is The Razors Edge which is based on one of his n
    books. The pity is I thought studying literature at uni would encompass some of his writing. However, he got such a beating from feminists, about his treatment of women, that he did not feature on the syllabus.

  13. So refreshing to go back to my youth revisiting the wonderful days of early cinema, and re witness the simple plots with great actors, many of them passed away, but through the miracle of modern technology we can spend an hour or two with them again, a blessing indeed.

  15. 7:18 I wouldn't like to get him a missed? 7:25 and I lived up (from) ever since? If you say that someone won't go far wrong or can't go far wrong with a particular thing or course of action, you mean that it is likely to be successful or satisfactory.
    If you remember these three golden rules you won't go far wrong.

  16. What a great collection and indeed a wonderful tribute to a great writer who we can enjoy over 70 years later as if it was as ground-breaking and as topical Today.

    Thank you for sharing this quintessentially English masterpiece captured and brought to us by so many great stars of Gainsborough Pictures.

    The old ones are the best, because the wit, the talent and the beauty is timeless.

  17. No matter how often i see these…and I check back in a few times a year with TRIO as well as QUARTET, I am engaged, captured, and completely drawn into these delightful stories. Bravo!

  18. I love writers of old. No trash, just good stories. And, BTW, since when did it matter it…. doesnt even matter. a good story is a good story.

  21. The three Maugham films are very entertaining but there are strange changes (presumably with the author's consent). The removal of all references to being Jewish in "Alien Corn" (rendering the title meaningless?), although it is still an interesting story of disillusionment in those with artistic ambition, which I think is the heart of it.
    "The Colonel's Lady" in the book ends at 1.55.00 but the film includes a coda which explains perhaps too explicitly what is only hinted at in the written story.

  25. I read some Maugham, I seem to remember liking his writings. The mannerism and his voice when he spoke in the beginning has told me he must be a homosexual, although I did not know it.

    I like these four films and I enjoyed them the acting was good, mind you, I only started to watch them because of Dirk Bogarde I am quite deferential to him. He never disappoints me. Anyway, I enjoyed them I do not go into much of the points others commented about. I would only say, I was deeply sorry for Ivy, because her husband stopped loving her and saw only the use in her, then hypocritically was upset that his wife must have cheated on him, whereas he was having a woman he kept: furnishing her with a flat and taking her out to supper and other entertainment for ages, from the look of it.

    How dare men be angry and upset and talk of shame when they themselves are terrible cheats and they are many times the reason. Like this husband he stopped caring and he took a lover and the poor woman was pining away totally alone left to deal with the house and the staff and the garden, alone left to do her social and other duties without any love, appreciation from her cheating husband. And then he gets upset. Absurd, but I know, that whilst men expect women to forgive them if they cheat, they think it impossible to do the same if the woman does so. If they cheat it is okay, if the woman, she is a whore, and it is unforgivable, the most morbid part is, that they think like that even when they are cheating the wife as in this story. Not once he remembered that he was cheating his wife for years, that he neglected her and left her to live a solitary life, when actually she was married: to him.

    I apologise to those men, who are not of this sort but I absolutely hate this double standard that is going on in this world for thousands of years! Seeing it in a film worked me up a great deal.

  27. Everyone thinks Maugham is so great . After reading a good bit of his work , the female is partly or fully to blame for any ill circumstances . It is like he's got this misogyny thing whereas since Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit then all women since then to today are a scourge on humanity . Just search Maugham + misogyny and you will find many agree he was a misogynist . In his writing he only puts females in a positive light his female characters who are servile, good little girls, and wives who do their husbands' bidding . He was also gay , but i have no problem with that . No i am not gay .

  28. So the moral of the first story is you steal your money back from "an adventurous" who stole it, find it and by accident take in addition take her money and laugh about it ?

  30. Compare this to the films being made in France Italy Sweden and Japan in 1948, It is as if England had been encased in ice for 30 years,,,since 1918, The mediocrity of Maugham Coward Rattigan Barry, Only The Third Man broke the mould,,,and that was Graham Greeneland,,, a world of nihilism and cynicism

  33. I love his writing. Maugham was very much an outsider, homosexual in an age when it was a criminal offense. Interestingly Maugham had a brother who became an eminent judge.

  34. Maugham's well known original story "The alien corn" is about a nouveau riche Jewish family. Here the Jews have been replaced by English aristocrats and the story line has been changed as well. Weird that this story was chosen only to change it beyond recognition.

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