The Letter

Atmospheric melodrama set among wealthy colonials in Malaya. When a woman shoots her lover, she claims self-defence and expects a speedy trial to find her innocent. But she learns that the victim’s widow holds an incriminating letter, available to her at a price., A steamy story from Somerset Maugham, with Bette Davis unforgettable as the calculating plantation owner’s wife who kills her lover and hides the truth from her unsuspecting husband., Drama set in Malaya and starring Bette Davis as the wife of a plantation owner (Herbert Marshall) who claims to have killed her husband in self-defence, but who then finds herself drawn into a nightmarish world of blackmail and deceit., Best Picture nominee is an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham play about the wife of a rubber-plantation owner in Malaysia who commits a crime of passion, then claims self-defense, but a blackmailer appears with an incriminating piece of evidence. Oscar nominations also went to Bette Davis as the wife and director William Wyler., Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as the legendary gunman Billy the Kid in this film adaptation of Gore Vidal’s play., Leslie Crosbie murders Geoffrey Hammond. His widow has a letter writtten by Leslie asking him to meet her as her lover on the night of the murder., Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, William Wyler’s drama stars Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie, the malevolent wife of a Malaysian rubber magnate (Herbert Marshall) who is accused of murdering her lover and attempting to cover up the crime., A steamy story from Somerset Maugham, with Bette Davis unforgettable as the calculating plantation owner’s wife who kills her lover and hides the truth from her unsuspecting husband. Reunited Davis with her ‘Jezebel’ director William Wyler.