The Letter (1940)
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- Trailer for this classic starring Bette Davis (02:18)
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Synopsis
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
Cast
- Bette Davis
- Herbert Marshall
- James Stephenson
- Frieda Inescort
- Gale Sondergaard
- Bruce Lester
- Elizabeth Inglis
- Cecil Kellaway
- Victor Sen Yung
- Doris Lloyd
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Metacritic
This might be one of Bette Davis’ least sympathetic parts, which is saying something.
Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm
It is an evil tale, plotted with an eye to its torturing effects. And Mr. Wyler has directed the film along those lines. With infinite care, he has created the dark, humid atmosphere of the rubber country. At a slow, inexorable pace, he has accumulated the details.
Bosley Crowther
The New York Times
Like Frankenstein’s monster in the Universal horror classics, The Letter keeps its prize creature too long in the shadows. But a Davis movie cannot withstand scrutiny without her, and even a bad Davis movie where she’s hamming and mugging and even humiliating herself is more fun than practically no Bette at all.
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine
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