The Letter
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The Letter

1931Movie1 h 5 min

Drama
70
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70
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Summary

Leslie Bennett's extramarital affair with George Nelson spirals out of control when Hammond abandons Leslie for the alluring native woman Li Ti. Foreign language version of the 1929 Jeanne Eagels film “The Letter.”

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Yellow Perilin 130 titlesThe overt racism by the white colonials towards the Malay and Chinese natives in both films is overwhelming.Lighter and Softerin 2,792 titlesThe 1929 film preserves Maugham's original ending, in which Leslie gets away with murder. It ends with her defiantly shouting that she's still in love with the man she killed.All 21 tropes

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