The Letter (1940)
- Directed by
- William Wyler
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 249 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A woman in a Malaysian rubber plantation shoots a man to death. She claims it was self defense but the evidence tells a different story.
tensemelancholicfast-pacedglamorousmoodysuspensefulnoirish
What happens
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. 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; she 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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