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The Letter is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Wyler released in USA on 23 november 1940 with Bette Davis
The Letter (1940)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 23 november 1940
Length 1h35
Directed by William Wyler
OriginUSA
Themes Films based on plays
Rating74%
The Letter is a 1940 American film noir 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. The play was originally filmed in 1929, by director Jean de Limur (The Letter).
Synopsis
On a moonlit, tropical night, the native workers are asleep in their outdoor barracks. A shot is heard; the door of a house opens and a man stumbles out of it, followed by a woman who calmly shoots him several more times, the last few while standing over his body. The woman is Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), the wife of a British rubber plantation manager in Malaya; the man whom she shot her manservant recognizes as Geoff Hammond, a well-regarded member of the European community. Leslie tells the servant to send for her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall), who is working at one of the plantations. Her husband returns, having summoned his attorney and a British police inspector. Leslie tells them that Geoff Hammond "tried to make love to me" and that she killed him to save her honor.Actors
Bette Davis
(Leslie Crosbie)
Herbert Marshall
(Robert Crosbie)
James Stephenson
(Howard Joyce)
Gale Sondergaard
(Mrs. Hammond)
Cecil Kellaway
(Prescott)
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