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The Letter(Movie, 1940)

1h 35min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Mystery
The LetterRating: 3.7/5 (with 8686 votes)
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 who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was pardoned by the local sultan after a public furor. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Letter

Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Score

About The Letter

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

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The Letter 1940(Trailer, 0:18)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Singapore
Based on: "The Letter" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 11/22/1940 (World premiere: 11/21/1940)
Director: William Wyler
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Executive Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Film Editor: George Amy
Director of Photography: Tony Gaudio
Composer: Max Steiner
Costume designer: Orry-Kelly
Production Designer: Carl Jules Weyl
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La lettre"
"A Carta"
"Das Geheimnis von Malampur"
"La carta"
"La lettre"
"De Brief"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: The Letter (US, 1929), The Letter (US, 1930), The Letter (US, 1931), The Letter (SU, 1965), The Letter (DE, 1966), The Letter (SU, 1970), The Letter (US, 1982), The Letter (KR, 1997), The Letter (FR, 1998), The Letter (FR/PT/ES, 1999), The Letter (TH, 2004), The Letter (IS, 2008), The Letter (BE, 2011), The Letter (US, 2012), The Letter (NL, 2013), The Letter (KR, 2014), The Letter (MX, 2014), The Letter (RU, 2016), The Letter (US, 2017), The Letter (2018), The Letter (2019), The Letter (KE, 2020), The Letter (2021), The Letter (2023)

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