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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Wyler again turns a polished social world into a pressure chamber, with a formidable Bette Davis performance, corrosive family alliances, and the same coolly controlled moral cruelty as The Letter.
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Why this pick
This elegant, underseen murder drama shares The Letter’s colonial-era unease, poised surface manners, and gradual exposure of the emotional motives beneath a suspicious death.
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Why this pick
For another immaculate, psychologically chilling melodrama centered on a beautiful woman whose composure masks destructive obsession, rendered with the visual polish and fatalistic bite of a classic studio thriller.
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Why this pick
Excluded: this is an earlier screen version of the same Somerset Maugham story.
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Why this pick
A terse noir in which a violent act forces a woman into escalating compromise. Its less exotic setting is offset by the same sense of guilt, entrapment, and danger tightening around every lie.
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01 / THE STORY
On a moonlit, tropical night, the native workers are asleep in their outdoor barracks. A shot is heard; the door of a house opens and a man stumbles out of it, followed by a woman who calmly shoots him several more times, the last few while standing over his body. The woman is Leslie Crosbie, the wife of a British rubber plantation manager in British Malaya; the man whom she shot is recognized by her manservant as Geoff Hammond, a well-regarded member of the European community. Leslie tells the servant to send for her husband Robert, who is working at one of the plantations. Her husband returns, having summoned his attorney and a British police inspector. Leslie tells them that Geoff Hammond "tried to make love to me" and that she killed him to save her honor.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ong Chi Seng
Mrs. Cooper
Head Boy
Undetermined Role
Bob's Friend
Fred
Geoffrey Hammond
Dorothy Joyce
