Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Ian (Flash Review)First time I've watched a film with Betty Davis. Now I know why Kim Karnes sang about her eyes in 1981 as they do convey much emotion without words. This Noir opens up with Davis literally holding a smoking gun with a dead corps at her feet. This is going to be difficult for her to weasel out of. Claiming self-defense as the man advanced on her with lewd intent, she had to use force to halt him. Yet, later on a letter (hint, hint) surfaces that she wrote inviting that man to her abode. Uh oh. Will she be able to overcome the new potentially incriminated evidence? Why did she write it? What will her actual husband think once he learns the full story? This was a well-acted and well-told story. Good drama, good twists and informative cinematography. Case in point, you can tell a lot by the black and white shades of her outfits to figure out the state of her character during the film. Not to be overlooked is the nice music score that adds impact at the right moments.

kobisims Personally, I really enjoy this movie. The story line was good, and the graphics were really good for the 40's also the angles of the camera were good and the production of the the movie was really good. The only problem I had with the movie was that the acting was dramatic and when she killed him there wasn't a story leading up to his death.

wheels-16275 This film is called The Letter. The following stars of the film are Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, and James Stephenson. The setting was in Singapore. This was a crime, drama, and mystery.This film starts out with showing the scenery of Leslie Crosbies (Bette Davis) house. And all of a sudden Leslie and Mr. Hammond coming out of the house with Leslie Crosbie shooting him many times. Leslie claims that the man assaulted her and tried to make love to her. Leslie was taken to jail until the trial in court. However Leslie's lawyer Howard Joyce receives news that there is a letter in Leslie's handwriting saying she asked for Mr. Hammond to come to her house and that she was alone. Leslie's Lawyer asks if she wrote that letter and at first she denies it then admitted she had wrote it and all of a sudden she passes out onto the floor.The acting in this movie was done very well. Including Bette Davis. She was good at looking very suspicious and creepy at times throughout the film. Examples are when she is trying to think of what to say and she has a rather frighting look on her face. The acting of the Lawyer in this film was also pretty good. The lawyer didn't really believe was Leslie was saying but he was good at not showing that.The background music was a key aspect throughout this film. Whenever something dramatic occurred in this movie there was always background music to make that scene much more suspenseful. An example would be in the beginning of the film when Leslie(Bette Davis) was shooting Mr. Hammond multiple times there was that background music playing to add more suspense to the movie.I thought this film was very well thought out and made when I started watching it. The quality of the film was very good for that time it was made it. And the sound of the actors voices were very clear. To other viewers I'd say if you like mystery/crime-drama then you would enjoy this film.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . by an inscrutable Asian upon an unarmed American woman--Bette Davis--in BOTH versions of its climax, it's clear that Warner Bros.' live-action feature THE LETTER is much MORE than merely an adaptation of novelist W. Somerset Maugham's best-seller. Just as Japan broke ALL the rules of warfare with its perfidious destruction of America's Sunday Morning-Worshipping Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor within months of this Warner Bros. Warning (following up THAT outrage with a non-stop Parade of War Crimes including the Bataan Death March), THE LETTER is carefully crafted to shine a spotlight revealing the True Nature of that outlaw island war criminal hangout's Threat to Civilization. Using Singapore as a stand-in for Japan (Warner could hardly film in Tokyo while that Failed Rogue State was Raping Nanking), Bette's garishly Be-Bangled She-Devil Rival for Asia's Scarce Natural Resources first bankrupt's Bette's household through a nasty Blackmail Plot before Back-Stabbing her to death. This sorry conclusion aptly forecasts how a Resource-Envious Japan had its two-faced ambassador "talking peace" in Washington, DC, at the very moment that the Japanese Death Bombs began raining down upon the placid worship services in Hawaii.