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- The Letter (1940) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TheLetter
Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equaled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting cast, atmospheric cinematography and the artistry of three-time Academy Award® winner* William Wyler, Davis’ director on Jezebel and The Little Foxes. Nominated for seven Oscars®, including Best Picture, Actress, Director and Supporting Actor, The Letter remains one of Hollywood’s most special deliveries, a peerless example of melodrama as movie art.
Special Features: Alternate Ending Sequence; 2 Audio-Only Bonuses: Lux Radio Theater adaptation starring Davis, Marshall and Stephenson from 4/21/41 and Lux Radio Theater adaptation starring Davis and Marshall from 3/6/44; Theatrical Trailer (HD),
Directed By William Wyler
Starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
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This movie has the very best opening and closing scenes. Best noir.
Can anyone explain the ending to me? Is it the widow, tapping her foot draped in lace, supposedly spun by her arch enemy?
Fabulous!! She is just mesmerising. Famous line: "With all my heart, I still love the man I killed!"
This may be my favorite Max Steiner music.
For me it's "King Kong" (1933). As a child the themes seared into my brain in a good way. Amazing work.
She always sits weaving that complicated lace like a spider with her web.
Gale Sondergaard is stunning. I could watch the scene when she comes through the glass bead curtain everyday and not get tired of it.
One of the first and best noirs.
Not the first noir, by any stretch of the imagination. Some say it is "The Invisible Man."
It's an atmospheric drama. I would not call it noir. The music is brilliant.
The first film noir was Mildred Pierce 1945
A timeless classic! Great acting from Bette Davis as well as from James Stephenson, who played Howard the lawyer. Music from Mac Steiner is very atmospheric and perfect for creating this ultimate story of jealously and murder.
I once got a birthday card with this scene on the cover. It said, "ANOTHER YEAR SHOT TO HELL"
She pulled the trigger until it went click-click.
This was based on a true story in Malaya now Malaysia. I read about the murder but never knew they made a movie.
This movie had a very fitting end for a very , ungrateful, unloving woman.
Movies like this don’t make them any more
Men have guts to marry . You never know . When , how. Oh never keep a gun where she might find it . Marriage is like walking a tightrope, 1 slip
Poor chap. You just don't tell Betty Davis you have found some one you love more than her or that you think so and so is a better actress.
when she killed the guy cuz he was making a m9ve on her....she thought she was rich & entitled thinking she would get away w/it....when it was her that was going behind her husbands bak....she could of easily ran outside & called out for help knowing there where like 20plus wrkers out there if she need help....she soooo wouldnt be able2 sale her story 2me if i was n that jury box....knowing all those men out there if she needed to call out for help...n that time & era....
This would be a perfect film if it faded out at the end right after Leslie (Bette Davis) cries out to her husband (Herbert Marshall): "With all my heart, I still love the man I killed!" Final shot of them sitting there in dead silence, staring at each other, neither having any idea where the hell they go, or what they do, now. THE END. THAT would have been an ending for adults. But no -- Leslie has committed murder, has been tried and acquitted, and therefore must die -- and then the person who kills her must be arrested in their turn (by a policeman who apparently popped out of a box of Cracker Jack; he certainly has no imaginable reason for being in the Crosbies' garden at that particular moment) to reassure Mr. and Mrs. Whitebread that All Is Rght With The World, and to insure that Jack Warner won't be getting any angry letters from the Legion of Decency.
The production code at he time would not allow a murderer and an adulteress get away with it. She had to die. Same with "The Bad Seed". In the original Broadway play the mother dies and the girl lives. But the production code wouldn't have it and in the end the murderess girl got struck by lightning.
@@Ricky0101 You're absolutely right; the ending of "The Bad Seed" set some sort of standard for dumbass Poetic Justice conclusions. What has always astonished me is that it made absolutely no difference if a film was based on a book or a play that had already enjoyed widespread circulation, without arousing the slightest controversy. "The Bad Seed" had already existed in two incarnations, as a novel and a Broadway play, without any problems; yet Hollywood had to paste that tarted-up ending on it. The same had applied to Daphne du Maurier's novel "Rebecca"; even the fact that it had been serialized in that subversive publication "The Ladies' Home Journal" wasn't enough to get the murder at the center of the plot past the bluenoses at the Hays Office. Asinine.
The production code would never have allowed that ending. The killer had to die herself. Thats why Patty MacCormack gets hit by lightening at the end of "The Bad Seed". In the Broadway play, she lives and the mother dies.
Duh, didn't realize I had posted this already. My bad!
Looks like a shooting accident. His gun off while he was cleaning it.
Glasba!
I love bette Davis movies. But she got what she deserved at the end. Her husband was so weak, and blind. Talk about a simp,, I've seen Marshall play weak before pitiful. Love gale.