
The Letter
Blinded by the fury of passion - by the despair of a lost love -- she had not reckoned with "The Letter"
A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.
- 5.5
- 1929
- Released
- 1h 5m

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)
Released
en
- #based on play or musical
- #pre-code
Reviews

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











