The Letter
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Movie Reviews of The Letter
Movie Review: Bette at her scheming best
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is a fantastic adaptation of a very popular book and play from its era.
Bette Davis plays Leslie Crosbie, the wife of an English rubber plantation owner (Herbert Marshall) in the steamy Malay tropics.
The action starts with Leslie shooting dead her lover outside the house she shares with her husband.
On her husband's return, Leslie attempts to explain that the man tried to rape her and spends most of the movie concocting a phony alibi with which to aquit herself of the crime.
Gale Sondergaard plays the icy Chinese wife of the man she shoots dead and as usual steals the show.
I would count this among Davis' five greatest films and it seems to get better and more intriguing with each viewing.
Highly recommended viewing.
Movie Review: seven well-deserved Oscar nominations
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Letter" is a superb adapation of the Somerset Maugham tale set in Malaysia. Bette Davis is at the top of her form in her role as a deceitful, anguished wife caught up in an illicit love affair. Her pleasant, steady, unexciting husband, a rubber plantation manager, is played exceptionally well by Herbert Marshall. James Stephenson, in the role of her defense attorney, turns in an admirably understated yet vital performance.William Wyler's masterful direction, employing exotic settings and mysterious minor characters, make this spellbinding tale of passion and murder a can't-miss for all Davis fans.
"The Letter" deserves the highest recommendation!
Movie Review: A great deal
Summary: 4 Stars
It is a real crime story. Only at the end of this story you experience what happened in this special night. It is hard to feel how this nice beautiful woman can be a murderer.I was surprised that a lawyer does such a great deal (with that letter) to save the life of his client who is guilty. At the end you are in doubt if it is a fair end or not. The book is interesting to read.Movie Review: Classical detective story
Summary: 3 Stars
"The Letter" is easy to read, interesting, but not very creative. You can see such a story in every detectiv movie! But I think it was really colourful and amusing and all the less the end is surprising, but also quite trashy. This book was another exemple of how unpredictable people are.Movie Review: Very good
Summary: 5 Stars
The letterI have read the book, and I think it's very good. The story is great. "The Letter" I must say, is one book of English, that I like to read. I have read a lot of English books, but this is my favourite. The book is very easy to read. And i like it.