Trailer
![]() | W. Somerset Maugham as Himself |
![]() | Basil Radford as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life") |
![]() | Naunton Wayne as Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life") |
![]() | Mai Zetterling as Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life") |
![]() | Ian Fleming as Ralph (segment "The Facts of Life") |
![]() | Jack Raine as Thomas (segment "The Facts of Life") |
| Angela Baddeley as Mrs. Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life") | |
![]() | James Robertson Justice as Branksome (segment "The Facts of Life") |
![]() | Jack Watling as Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life") |
![]() | Nigel Buchanan as John (segment "The Facts of Life") |
| Jean Cavall as Cabaret Artist (segment "The Facts of Life") | |
![]() | Dirk Bogarde as George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn") |
![]() | Honor Blackman as Paula (segment "The Alien Corn") |
![]() | Raymond Lovell as Sir Frederick Bland (segment "The Alien Corn") |
![]() | Irene Browne as Lady Bland (segment "The Alien Corn") |
| George Thorpe as Uncle John (segment "The Alien Corn") | |
![]() | Françoise Rosay as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn") |
![]() | Maurice Denham as Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn") |
![]() | Mary Hinton as Aunt Maud (segment "The Alien Corn") |
![]() | James Hayter as Foreman of the Jury (segment "The Alien Corn") |
![]() | George Merritt as Prison Officer (segment "The Kite") |
![]() | George Cole as Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite") |
![]() | Bernard Lee as Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite") |
![]() | Frederick Leister as Prison Governor (segment "The Kite") |
| David Cole as Herbert (as a boy) (segment "The Kite") | |
![]() | Hermione Baddeley as Beatrice Sunbury (segment "The Kite") |
![]() | Mervyn Johns as Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite") |
![]() | Susan Shaw as Betty Baker Sunbury (segment "The Kite") |
![]() | Cyril Chamberlain as Reporter (segment "The Kite") |
![]() | Cecil Parker as Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Nora Swinburne as Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
| Lyn Evans as Bannock (segment "The Colonel's Lady") | |
![]() | Claud Allister as 1st. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Wilfrid Hyde-White as 2nd. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Ernest Thesiger as Henry Dashwood (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Henry Edwards as Duke of Heverel (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Linden Travers as Daphne (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Felix Aylmer as Martin (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Clive Morton as Henry Blane (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | J.H. Roberts as West (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Cyril Raymond as Railway Passenger (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | John Salew as John Coleman (critic) (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Margaret Withers as Gushing Woman (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Yvonne Owen as 1st. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
| Margaret Thorburn as 2nd. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady") | |
![]() | Hal Osmond as Bookshop Assistant (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Ernest Butcher as Blane's Clerk (segment "The Colonel's Lady") |
![]() | Johnny Briggs as Boy on Common (segment "The Kite") |
| Arthur Denton as Man on Common (segment "The Kite") | |
![]() | Marcel Poncin as Frenchman (segment "The Alien Corn") |
| Directing | |
| Ken Annakin | Director |
Writing | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | Story |
Directing | |
| Ralph Smart | Director |
| Arthur Crabtree | Director |
Writing | |
| R.C. Sherriff | Writer |
Directing | |
| Harold French | Director |
Crew | |
| Fred Mannin | Scenic Artist |
Sound | |
| Eric Cass | Boom Operator |
Camera | |
| Bernard Lewis | Camera Operator |
| Reginald H. Wyer | Director of Photography |
| Ray Elton | Director of Photography |