The Letter (1940)
Note: this print runs 85 minutes against a recorded 95 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard, Cecil Kellaway, Frieda Inescort, Elizabeth Inglis, Victor Sen Yung
Directed by William Wyler
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.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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