Directed by:
Edmund GouldingScreenplay:
Lamar TrottiCinematography:
Arthur C. MillerComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore, Elsa Lanchester, Fritz Kortner (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
Narrated by on-screen observer Maugham (Herbert Marshall), this intriguing tale centers on a soul-searching World War I veteran (Tyrone Power) who finds he can not settle back into the world of the upper class. Shunning his planned marriage and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life and causes his distraght fiancee (GeneTierney) to seek solace with another man (John Payne). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Tyrone Power](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/696/161696345_32ab9e.jpg)
Tyrone Power
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Love Is News (1937)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
![Gene Tierney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/347/162347494_ffc63d.jpg)
Gene Tierney
USA
Best movies:
Laura (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Night and the City (1950)
![John Payne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270220_aceb03.jpg)
John Payne
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
![Anne Baxter](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/349/164349849_77e88d.png)
Anne Baxter
USA
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
East of Eden (1981) (series)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
![Clifton Webb](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273030_8b1b64.jpg)
Clifton Webb
USA
Best movies:
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Laura (1944)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
![Herbert Marshall](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/132/163132854_761e78.jpg)
Herbert Marshall
UK
Best movies:
The Little Foxes (1941)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
![Lucile Watson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505184_6caba9.jpg)
Lucile Watson
Canada
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Little Women (1949)
![Frank Latimore](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/147/172/147172499_9fe775.jpg)
Frank Latimore
USA
Best movies:
All the President's Men (1976)
Purple Noon (1960)
Patton (1970)
![Elsa Lanchester](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271937_e9fbb6.jpg)
Elsa Lanchester
UK
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Murder by Death (1976)
![Fritz Kortner](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496849_da0b02.jpg)
Fritz Kortner
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
![André Charlot](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319182_b709c0.jpg)
André Charlot
France
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Great Sinner (1949)
![Barry Norton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274826_3820b1.jpg)
Barry Norton
Argentina
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
Casablanca (1942)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
![Jaque Catelain](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278460_56f1a2.jpg)
Jaque Catelain
France
Best movies:
Eldorado (1921)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
L'Inhumaine (1924)
![Bess Flowers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/619/160619287_5a558a.jpg)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
![Paul Bryar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162627_996bce.gif)
Paul Bryar
USA
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
Frances Morris
USA
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Caged (1950)
Conflict (1945)
![Forbes Murray](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/185/159185624_51416d.gif)
Forbes Murray
Canada
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Vertigo (1958)
![Jack Chefe](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/482/159482546_09841b.jpg)
Jack Chefe
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
It Started with Eve (1941)
All About Eve (1950)
Fred Graham
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
![Reed Hadley](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/109/309/109309415_10d1de.jpg)
Reed Hadley
USA
Best movies:
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Bachelor Mother (1939)