The Letter (1940)
Country: US
Technical: bw 95m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Sen Yung
Synopsis:
The wife of a rubber plantation owner shoots a man, allegedly in self-defence, and almost carries it off, were it not for an incriminating letter in her hand.
Review:
A case of an adaptation outdoing its source material, Howard Koch's version of Somerset Maugham's play, combined with Wyler's expert direction, turns this piece of quasi-melodrama into magnificent drama, and it's Davis's finest hour.
Country: US
Technical: bw 95m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Sen Yung
Synopsis:
The wife of a rubber plantation owner shoots a man, allegedly in self-defence, and almost carries it off, were it not for an incriminating letter in her hand.
Review:
A case of an adaptation outdoing its source material, Howard Koch's version of Somerset Maugham's play, combined with Wyler's expert direction, turns this piece of quasi-melodrama into magnificent drama, and it's Davis's finest hour.
Country: US
Technical: bw 95m
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Sen Yung
Synopsis:
The wife of a rubber plantation owner shoots a man, allegedly in self-defence, and almost carries it off, were it not for an incriminating letter in her hand.
Review:
A case of an adaptation outdoing its source material, Howard Koch's version of Somerset Maugham's play, combined with Wyler's expert direction, turns this piece of quasi-melodrama into magnificent drama, and it's Davis's finest hour.