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7.3After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Released: 1940-11-2195 minDir: William WylerCrime, Drama
Cast
- Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie
- Herbert Marshall as Robert Crosbie
- James Stephenson as Howard Joyce
- Frieda Inescort as Dorothy Joyce
- Gale Sondergaard as Mrs. Hammond
- Bruce Lester as John Withers
Themes
- based on novel or book
- singapore
- plantation
- letter
- film noir
- murder
- malaya
- murder suspect
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Ratings
IMDb
7.5/10
14,903 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
- Year
- 1940
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Nominated for 7 Oscars. 1 win & 9 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Letter
- Director
- William Wyler
- Screenwriter
- William Somerset Maugham
- Cast member
- Leonard Mudie
- Composer
- Max Steiner
- Producer
- Hal B. Wallis
- Cinematographer
- Tony Gaudio
- Narrative location
- Singapore
- Duration
- 95
- FilmAffinity ID
- 615353
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Bette Davis in The Letter 3 cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Letter (1940 film)
- publication date
- 1940-12-05
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- film editor
- George Amy
- Commons gallery
- The Letter (1940 film)
- title
- The Letter
- production designer
- Carl Jules Weyl
- color
- black-and-white
- costume designer
- Orry-Kelly
- executive producer
- Hal B. Wallis
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- different from
- List
- review score
- 100%
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