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Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), the wife of a British rubber planter in Malay, shoots and kills Jeff Hammond, and claims that she was defending her honor. Look.
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Brief Synopsis. Read More. In this sumptuous remake of the 1940 Bette Davis/Herbert Marshall version of Somerset Maugham's tale of smoldering passions on a rubber plantation in the Malayan jungles, Lee Remick and Australian actor Jack Thompson star as the restless wife and her rubber planter husband behind whose back she had.
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The film takes place on a British rubber plantation in Malaya, making it one of the few Hollywood films set in Asia. After killing Geoff Hammond in the opening scenes, Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) approaches her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall) for help, pleading the murder was an act of self-defence. Here Leslie claims that the dead man was.
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Bette Davis was reportedly fascinated by the actress Jeanne Eagels, who had played the part of Leslie in the 1929 film version of The Letter. In W. Somerset Maugham's original play The Letter , after Leslie confesses to her husband that she still loves the man she killed, she gets away with the crime.
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Directed by William Wyler and featuring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, and James Stephenson, The Letter is a gripping 1940 crime melodrama. Based on W. Somer.
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Bette Davis pumps bullets into a man's body. Was it self-defense? Only THE LETTER ('40) can answer.Learn more about THE LETTER ('40) here: http://myt.cm/TheL.
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The magnificent final scene of The Letter follows self-possessed Bette Davis into the Malaysian tropics, lured by intoxicating shadows formed by clouds eclipsing the moon. It's a scene fraught with suspense, the kind that Warner Bros. would hype as "Her Date With Destiny.". And her date culminates with an uncompromised moment of cruel.
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The case seems to be easy and simple, but a letter written by Leslie to Geoffrey and in the hand of the Hammond's widow may sentence Leslie to death by hanging. When the widow decides to sell the letter for US$10,000.00, Howard faces a dilemma between his friendship and his career. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The Letter (1940) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu.. Bette Davis. Leslie Crosbie: Herbert Marshall. Robert Crosbie: James Stephenson. Golden Age Films I Enjoyed (All Genres) a list of 44 titles
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The Letter is a 1940 American FILM NOlR crime drama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by.
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On Blu-ray: Bette Davis at Her Best in William Wyler's The Letter (1940) Adapted from a Somerset Maugham novel, the story of a married woman living on a far east plantation who kills her lover first came to the screen in 1929 as one of the few movie performances of troubled stage actress Jeanne Eagels. Her performance remains remarkable today.
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The Letter from 1940 starring Bette Davis. Directed by William Wyler, co-starring Herbert Marshall. As I state in the intro, this movie is definitely my favo.
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The Letter is a 1940 American crime 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.The story was inspired by a real-life scandal involving the.
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For some reason all the films Bette Davis made under the guiding hand of director William Wyler represent her best work, and The Letter is no exception. Made in 1940, the movie shows attitudes that have changed greatly in western society since that picture was made - the contempt people have for Gayle Sondergaard's character is a question in.
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Indubitably Mr. Wyler must be grateful to Bette Davis, James Stephenson, Herbert Marshall and an excellent cast for doing as he told them; obviously Mr. Maugham supplied him with a potent play.
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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 in her own hand may prove her undoing.
