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The Letter. Released Nov 22, 1940 1h 35m Drama CTA List. 100% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 82% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings. In Singapore, Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) shoots and kills a man, claiming...
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The Letter is a 1940 American crime film noir melodrama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. [1] The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham derived from his own short story.
In William Wyler’s richly torrid melodrama The Letter, Davis unsurprisingly mesmerizes as a duplicitous murderess pleading self-defense. What is surprising is how, with the help of a good, sympathetic director, she doesn’t play the role in all-out pit viper mode.
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The wife (Jeanne Eagels) of a plantation owner (Reginald Owen) in Malaysia shoots a man (Herbert Marshall) and claims that the act was in self-defense, however during the ensuing trial, a lawyer...
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- Jeanne Eagels
- Jean de Limur
- Drama
The Letter (1940) is a movie that I recently watched on HBOMAX. The storyline follows a husband and wife who "unexpectantly" discover the wife has been charged with murder. They hire a family friend to be the wife's lawyer.
Apr 1, 2009 · Bette Davis teamed for her second of three movies with director William Wyler for this adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham play The Letter. It was nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture, Actress and Director.
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The Letter: Directed by William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort. The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
