The Letter (1940) -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE

The Letter (1940)
95 min - Crime | Drama | Film-Noir - 23 November 1940 (USA)
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
Director: William Wyler
Writers: W. Somerset Maugham (by), Howard Koch (screen play)
Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
www.imdb.com/title/tt0032701

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Too bad this didn't include the stunning tracking shot that begins the film. William Wyler's finest moment

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Outstanding film noir! Poor Cecil Kellaway is on credits but doesn't say a word. Lucky he rose to get a major role in The Postman Always Rings Twice!
I need to inform all that was not Gale Sondergaard knifing Bette Davis, that was Joan Crawford! Bette got her revenge 22 years later in the infamous scene kicking Joan brutally in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane!