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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Film-Noir /
Mystery /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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William Wyler
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Actors:
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Frieda Inescort,
James Stephenson,
Elizabeth Inglis,
Bette Davis,
Herbert Marshall,
Gale Sondergaard,
Bruce Lester,
Cecil Kellaway,
Victor Sen Yung,
Doris Lloyd
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)71
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Plot Summary:
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In Singapore, Leslie Crosbie, the mate of the administrator of a plantation nut of a rubber company, shoots six times in Geoffrey Hammond.and pleads self-defense to her calm Robert Crosbie and her lawyer and escort of the stock Howard Joyce. The come what may seems to be easy and simple, but a letter written sooner than Leslie to Geoffrey and in the hand of the Hammond's widow may verdict Leslie to death about hanging. When the widow decides to sell the letter for US$10,000.00, Howard faces a dilemma between his conviviality and his career.
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Tags:
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The Letter
Excellent performances and unveiling detect this the closest approximation on mist to reading a Maugham story of the Over the top East, for all that censorship false the to boot of an infuriating noble ending.
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