The Letter
Plot
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
About The Letter
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 play was first filmed in 1929 by director Jean de Limur, starring Jeanne Eagels. The story was inspired by a real-life scandal involving the Eurasian wife of the headmaster of a school in Kuala Lumpur; she was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was pardoned by the local sultan after a public furor.
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Cast
Bette DavisLeslie Crosbie
Herbert MarshallRobert Crosbie
James StephensonHoward Joyce
Frieda InescortDorothy Joyce
Gale SondergaardMrs. Hammond
Bruce LesterJohn Withers
Elizabeth InglisAdele Ainsworth
Cecil KellawayPrescott
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