The Letter (1940)
The Letter (1940)
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Plot.
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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Cast & Crew.
Bette Davis
Leslie Crosbie
Herbert Marshall
Robert Crosbie
James Stephenson
Howard Joyce
Frieda Inescort
Dorothy Joyce
Gale Sondergaard
Mrs. Hammond
Bruce Lester
John Withers
Elizabeth Inglis
Adele Ainsworth
Cecil Kellaway
Prescott
Victor Sen Yung
Ong Chi Seng
Doris Lloyd
Mrs. Cooper
Willie Fung
Chung Hi
Tetsu Komai
Head Boy
Zita Baca
Woman (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Party Guest (uncredited)
William A. Boardway
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
David Bruce
Man (uncredited)
James Carlisle
Attorney (uncredited)
George Ford
Party Guest (uncredited)
Roland Got
Man (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Party Guest (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert
Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
Charles Irwin
Bob's Friend (uncredited)
Pete G. Katchenaro
Man (uncredited)
Crauford Kent
Robert's Friend at Bar (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Al Lloyd
Man at Trial (uncredited)
Robert Locke Lorraine
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Leonard Mudie
Fred (uncredited)
David Newell
Geoffrey Hammond (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Thomas Pogue
Juror #10 (uncredited)
John Ridgely
Driver (uncredited)
Leslie Sketchley
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Douglas Walton
Well Wisher (uncredited)
Leo White
Man at Trial (uncredited)
Otto Yamaoka
Bartender at Party (uncredited)
William Wyler
Director / Producer
W. Somerset Maugham
Theatre Play
Howard Koch
Screenplay
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 21, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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Wiki.
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 Eurasian wife of the headmaster of a school in Kuala Lumpur who 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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