W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her...

The great actress Julia Lambert suddenly realizes that she is, alas, getting old. What can help a woman who has absolutely everything? Only new love....

Sheppey, an ordinary working-class waiter, wins a fortune in a sweep-stake, and elects to use the money to help the unfortunate.

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

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

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

In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a...

A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is involved with a young actress who uses him to advance...

An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.

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...

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

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...

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

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

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing....

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

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 plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.