Rightly or wrongly this movie has had more pans than praise on this site and that's fair enough, this is still a democracy and people are entitled to say what they think but it would be easier to accept negative criticism if the reviewer didn't kick off by saying that these three segments were adapted from short stories by Noel Coward. The multi-talented Coward did in fact publish several volumes of short stories but the three pieces here were originally produced on stage in 1936 under the overall title 'Tonight At Eight-Thirty' comprising nine one-act plays (originally there were ten but one was dropped after the first performance) which were played in sets of three on succeeding evenings. In 1952 the vogue for portmanteau movies - Dead Of Night, Quartet. Trio. Easy Money etc - was just about exhausted so it's reasonable to suppose that had this been made two or three years earlier it may have been better received. What it does illustrate is Coward's versatility - possibly because he himself played the lead in all nine plays opposite Gertrude Lawrence - and though ultimately disappointing it is nice to have a record of Coward's expertise.