The Letter
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.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 23, 2016
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall & James Stephenson | |
Performer: | Bruce Lester, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, John Ridgely, Doris Lloyd, Tetsu Komai, Willie Fung, Leonard Mudie & Cecil Kellaway | |
Directed by | William Wyler | |
Edited by | George Amy & Warren Low | |
Screenplay by | Howard Koch | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Carl Jules Weyl | |
Story by | W. Somerset Maugham | |
Produced by | William Wyler | |
Director of Photography: | Tony Gaudio | |
Executive Production by | Hal B. Wallis |
Entertainment Reviews:
If there is any doubt that Bette Davis is the star of this film, high above all others, it is vanquished by William Wyler's careful framing of her in every shot.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The greatest actress that the cinema has ever had the honor to service is typically terrific.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: A --
The second and best version of Maugham's noirish tale of adultery and murder is emarked by Wyler's nunaced mis-en-scene, Gaudio's lensing, and superlative acting of Bette Davis (surprisingly restrained), Herbert Marshall and especially James Stephenson.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
Though fully within her repertoire, Bette Davis makes her character's lurid arc absolutely gripping.
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Patrick Nabarro
Rating: 2.5/4 --
even a bad Davis movie where she's hamming and mugging and even humiliating herself is more fun than practically no Bette at all.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: A --
First-class cinema.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The Letter is a movie that provides that personal satisfaction that works of art produce in our soul. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Description by OLDIES.com:
The story begins in the shimmering moonlight on a tropical Malayan rubber plantation. Shots ring out and a wounded man staggers from a bungalow as Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) coldly follows him, pumping the remaining bullets into his body. She later tells her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall) that she shot Geoffrey, a mutual friend, because he was drunk and tried to take advantage of her. Robert, who owns the plantation, believes her story and hires high-powered lawyer Howard Joyce (James Stephenson) to defend her. But then a letter surfaces in which it is revealed that Leslie had invited Geoffrey to the plantation on the night of his murder. When Howard confronts her with the letter, Leslie admits writing it and implies that she and Geoffrey were lovers. Howard, nevertheless, agrees to continue defending her. Meanwhile, the letter becomes the object of a blackmail scheme from Geoffrey's widow (Gale Sondergaard).
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- Sales Rank: 8,393
- UPC: 888574432508
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