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The Letter
From Paramount Pictures
Blinded by the fury of passion - by the despair of a lost love -- she had not reckoned with "The Letter"
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A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.
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Directed by Jean de Limur
Jeanne Eagels
Reginald Owen
Herbert Marshall
Irene Browne
O. P. Heggie
Lady Tsen Mei
Fredi WashingtonVideos
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CinemaSerfJun 6, 2022
This is a superb character-driven performance from Jeanne Eagels as the bored wife who turns from her indifferent husband "Robert" (Reginald Owen) to the caddish "Geoffrey" (Herbert Marshall). When the latter shows her his true colours, he gets his comeuppance and a trial ensues. Provocation bordering on attempted rape is cited and she looks set for acquittal until it emerges that his Chinese mistress is in possession of a letter that might not quite support her version of th… Read more
e story - and she wants £10,000 for it! The production is quite heavily styled, very theatrical without very much visual intensity (the print I saw was really rather dark and gloomy) - but it's the performance from the star that sets this apart. She is enthralling, her stage background helping to provide us with an excellent tour de force that is really good to watch.