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The Letter (1940)

91 min · Crime, Forensic, Marital Tragedy, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir

Popularity4.5/5
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Directors

William Wyler

Cast

Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Elizabeth Inglis, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Sen Yung, Doris Lloyd, Willie Fung, Tetsu Komai

The story

thumb|left|Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall in The Letter thumb|Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie Leslie Crosbie, the wife of a British rubber plantation manager in Malaya, shoots dead Geoffrey Hammond, a well-known member of the expatriate community. Leslie tells the servant to send for the new district officer and her husband Robert, who is loading rubber for shipment. Crosbie returns, delivered by his attorney, a close family friend.

Catalogue themes and tags

20th Century, Accusal, Acquittal, Anonymous Letter, Betrug, Beweismaterial, Blackmail, Blackmailer, Bullet, Cheated Wife, Cold Blooded, Colonial era, Confidence, Court, Cover-up, Cowardliness, Cuckold, Culprit, Dagger, Defendant, Desperation, Dollar, Ehefrau, Ermordung, Exploitation, Geld, Gutmütigkeit, Headless, Husband, Husband Wife Relationship, Jurors, Jury, Kautschuk, Kautschukplantage, Lies, Love Letter, Malaysia, Moonlight, Murder Charge, Murder of Lover, Palm, Perjury, Pistole, Plantation, Planter, Prozess, Rach, Regret, Remorse, Retaliation, Schockierend, Schuld und Sühne, Self-Defense, Sentence, Singapur, Site of Crime, Spanische Kolonie, Star-Rechtsanwalt, Suffering, Suspicion of Murder, Thankfulness, Tribal Humans, Verdict, Verdrängung, Worker, lüge, Crime Fiction, Black-and-white, Drama, Film adaptation, Film noir, Courtroom Drama

Genres

Crime, Forensic, Marital Tragedy, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir

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