Film
The Letter
March 17, 1929 · from the book by William Somerset Maugham
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The Letter
Based On the book by William Somerset Maugham
The Letter is a 1940 American crime film noir melodrama directed by William Wyler, and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, derived from his own short story. The play was first filmed in 1929 by director Jean de Limur. The story was inspired by a real-life scandal involving the Eurasian wife of the headmaster of a school in Kuala Lumpur; she was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911.
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- 1940
- Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard, Cecil Kellaway
- United States
- English
Book vs Film
The Book ·
The Letter
William Somerset Maugham
The Film · 1940
The Letter
William Wyler
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