Cinema Survey 12
The Letter: William Wyler’s second adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Letter is bowdlerized, adhering to the Production Code, less than a decade old when the movie came out in 1940. Bette Davis, the wife of a rubber plantation manager in Malaya, opens the movie by shooting a man six times as her workers watch from their squalid living quarters. Her naive and faithful husband, Herbert Marshall, never questions her innocence or motives until she admits that she loved the man at the very end—after... Читать дальше...