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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. 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.
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.
- (15K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- William Wyler
- 1940-11-23
The Letter Released Nov 22, 1940 1h 35m Drama List 100% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 82% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings In Singapore, Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) shoots and kills a man, claiming that...
- (15)
- Bette Davis
- William Wyler
- Drama
In Singapore, Leslie Crosbie, the wife of the administrator of a plantation field of a rubber company, shoots six times in Geoffrey Hammond.and pleads self-defense to her husband Robert Crosbie and her lawyer and friend of the family Howard Joyce.
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
- William Wyler, Chuck Hansen, Sherry Shourds
- Bette Davis
The Letter movie synopsis: In Malaya, a plantation owner’s wife (Bette Davis) shoots a man multiple times, later asserting that he wanted to sexually assault her. After her devoted husband (Herbert Marshall) hires a reliable – if suspicious – attorney (James Stephenson), everything seems to be going her way.
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