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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.
In Singapore, Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) shoots and kills a man, claiming that he tried to take advantage of her. She is arrested and her husband, Robert (Herbert Marshall), hires attorney ...
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 written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
A woman shoots a man in Singapore and claims self-defense, but a letter she wrote to him may prove her guilt. IMDb provides three different plot summaries and a synopsis of this classic film based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham.
Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equalled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder...
2 Sep 2020 · Directed by William Wyler, we explore The Letter (1940) and its place as a forerunner to Film Noir starring Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall.
