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type
Movie
language
English
duration
96 min
genre
comedy-drama
theme
anthology
director
Harold French
Score
4 / 10

Trio (also known as W. Somerset Maugham's Trio) is a 1950 British anthology film based on three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Verger", "Mr Know-All" and "Sanatorium". Ken Annakin directed "The Verger" and "Mr Know-All", while Harold French was responsible for "Sanatorium".

Plot

The new vicar at St Peter's Church is astonished to learn that the long-serving verger, Albert Foreman, is illiterate. Foreman is too set in his ways to want to learn to read and write, and the vicar feels he has no choice but to sack him. Foreman's savings, while substantial, are not enough to sustain him for the rest of his life. On the way back to his lodgings, Foreman notices that there is no tobacconist's shop in the area and decides to open one. He also proposes to his landlady Emma. Their shop is so successful that when his stepdaughter's husband loses his job Foreman sets up another shop for them to run. Over the next ten years, Foreman starts up ten shops and becomes wealthy. The bank manager recommends that Foreman invest his savings, causing him to reveal that he cannot read the necessary papers. The manager exclaims, "What would you be today if you had been able to?" Foreman replies that he would be the verger at St Peter's.

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    author
    director Harold French Ken Annakin
    editor Alfred Roome
    genre comedy-drama
    keywords bank manager force gather ocean liner one night pearl necklace sanatorium social gathering tobacconist tuberculosis verger vicar
    musicBy John D. H. Greenwood
    nomination Academy Award for Best Sound
    producer Antony Darnborough
    productionCompany Gainsborough Pictures Rank Organisation
    publisher General Film Distributors Paramount Pictures
    recordedAt Pinewood Studios
    theme anthology