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The Letter
Why this pick
A polished, colonial-era melodrama of deception and moral rot, driven by the same fascination with outward respectability concealing desperate, damaging choices.
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MOVIE1948 1h 52m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Onboard a ship traveling to Liverpool, England from the West Indies, Anglican missionary's widow Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) is prevailed on to help nurse malarial patients on the lower decks. There she meets the suavely handsome Mark Bellis (Ray Milland), who has been taken ill. Despite Mark's vagueness about his life and past, the couple strike up a friendship. Fully recovered by the time the ship docks, Mark persuades Olivia to allow him to take up residence in the lodging house she has inherited from her late husband. He proceeds to work a smooth line of seduction on her, while still finding time to also use his charms on the more worldly and vulgar Kitty (Moira Lister).
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ann Todd
Olivia Harwood
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Susan Courtney
Moira Lister
Kitty Feathers
Roderick Lovell
Sir John Curle
Finlay Currie
Dr. Krylie
Maureen Delaney
Curtis
Hugh Griffith
Coroner
Zena Marshall
Lisette