“Sanatorium,” the last section of Trio, a 1950 anthology film based on the short stories of W. Somerset Maugham. This section was adapted from Maugham’s story by R.C. Sherriff, directed by Harold French, and stars Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie, and Roland Culver as Ashenden, Maugham’s fictional ego. Maugham himself introduces the film:
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