The Letter

“Blinded by the fury of passion - by the despair of a lost love -- she had not reckoned with "The Letter"”

5.5(22)19291h 5m

Drama

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

Director

Jean de Limur

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Cast

Jeanne Eagels

Leslie Crosbie

Reginald Owen

Robert Crosbie

Herbert Marshall

Geoffrey Hammond

Irene Browne

Mrs. Joyce

O. P. Heggie

Joyce

Lady Tsen Mei

Li-Ti

Tamaki Yoshiwara

Ong Chi Seng

Fredi Washington

Opium Den Dancer (Uncredited)

Isabel Washington

Opium Den Dancer (Uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

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 mist...