The Letter (broadcast May 1982) Directed by John Erman

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@davyjones1502 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this!!!! I saw it at the original 1982 TV broadcast, and I've been awaiting for decades for it to be posted!

@davidyess1 9 ай бұрын

William Wyler’s direction and Bette Davis’ acting made The Letter (1939 or 40) a veritable classic that simply cannot be touched. The black and white version rivals films from the silent era with respect to symbolism and cinematography. It always will ever remain for me one of the greatest films ever made and BD’s finest performance

@kingofdubb2133 9 ай бұрын

"What it's like to be the wife of a rubber planter - to sit out your life on some sweaty miserable plantation, miles from anywhere, from anybody, it's like being set down in hell, being punished for something you didn't do, nothing to do, day in, day out, except watch yourself get older and more dryed up: nobody knows, nobody even caring if you exist. Every dream you ever had, just melting away under that damn boring sun" My mum was the wife of a rubber planter, she had been a nurse before she married. After marriage they lived on a rubber farm together, and she held 2 or 3 clinics a week for the families who lived and worked on the farm. She loved it and had what was probably the best time of her life, before her husband died of heart disease in 1965. Interestingly Somerset Maugham was one of her favorite authors

@fantastichound 9 ай бұрын

Nice rubber plantation your grandma had. In Colombia in the days was brutal, they drop you in the plantation with a bucket and a machete and only way out was with a bucket filled to the brim. They charged you for bucket and machete plus a union daily fare and any comestible you brought in to the point that when you wanted out you were so much in debt you needed to go back again and do it all over again. As that year after year, until someone could come pay your debt and freed you.

@kingofdubb2133 9 ай бұрын

@@fantastichound it was my mum, not my grandma

@fantastichound 9 ай бұрын

@@kingofdubb2133 more awesome even, may our Lord bless her memory.

@kingofdubb2133 9 ай бұрын

@user-kc7mu4jp4p I didn't memorise the quote, I just typed it as I heard it. I just found the contrast between the experience of Maugham's character, and my mum's experience interesting, and also the fact that Maugham was one of my mum's favorite authors - I wonder if she had read the book, or seen the earlier movie of the book before she married a rubber planter. I don't believe in judging, and find curiosity and interest a much healthier attitude to adopt. Best wishes

@declankelly9829 4 ай бұрын

You say your mum "had what was probably the best time of her life" on a rubber plantation with her husband. How do you know this? Have you learned nothing from Maugham's story? Your mum may have been as miserable as Lee Remick was in the movie. Like Remick your mother may have been a great actress. And who knows, she may have had a secret affair that you knew nothing about?

@timbrandt2132 7 ай бұрын

Thanx sooooo much!! I've been trying to find this forever! You are my hero!!!!!

@elaraedannsoer557 9 ай бұрын

No role could be adequately replayed after Bette Davis played it, but I would like to see a remake of "Pocketful of Miracles. It's the only way I could get my kids/grandkids to watch it!! 😅

@ria1636 4 ай бұрын

Interesting version and always worth watching the lovely Lee Remick. Thanks for the upload.

@ginnylorenz5265 9 ай бұрын

I've only started watching......and the music, when she comes out on the porch, is identical to the Bette Davis version.

@BarryCorbett-x9m 9 ай бұрын

They ripped it off.

@StevenSmith-nq5xe 9 ай бұрын

@@BarryCorbett-x9m No, they credit it to Max Steiner, its composer.

@shereewilson6827 9 ай бұрын

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS!❤ I WASN'T AWARE THERE WAS A REMAKE. I APPRECIATE YOU POSTING THIS VERY MUCH! CAN YOU DO MORE MOVIES PLEASE?!❤

@SM-gl8yo 7 ай бұрын

Thank you. I like this very much. Soon-Tek Oh as Ong is wonderful. I like the flashbacks with Ian McShan. It's not a carbon copy of the iconic Bette Davis version, and that's to the good: it's got its own style. Lee Remick and Ronald Pickup are always worth watching.

@elaraedannsoer557 9 ай бұрын

Uh-uh..nobody could play this role better than the great dame Bette Davis and I really like Lee Remick.

@BarryCorbett-x9m 9 ай бұрын

Remick always gave me a pain in the arse - she's so over-rated.

@bridgetlovedfrankgeddes8352 4 ай бұрын

Thankyou x

@ItWasTheDay 9 ай бұрын

Kieu Chinh was a co-star in the film, thanks for posting.

@deniswhitburn2626 5 ай бұрын

I was on location for The Man From Snowy River writing an article on the production when Jack got the news he'd been cast in The Letter.

@raestalgia 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!👍I've been trying to find this movie only to come across one where its audio is out of sync with the movie,so thank you.

@dianapearson1771 9 ай бұрын

Of course!! Lee Redick was a lovely actress, but this was Bette Davi's movie

@unclealand 5 ай бұрын

Yes, I miss the great black and white cinematography, and I miss the opium atmosphere in the scene where they go to buy the evidence, but this version of "The Letter" is an outstanding remake. Good roles like that of Leslie Crosbie deserve to be interpreted by more than a couple actors. Bette Davis did great work in the earlier movie, even though I got tired of her doing that bit where she'd turn and bury her face into the back of a chair. Lee Remick was able to show Leslie's hypocrisy went deeper than only having one lover. The writers expanded her sexual appetites which was a good move.

@januariusbradley858 9 ай бұрын

Jeanne Eagles

@craigfuller1532 8 ай бұрын

Jeanne Eagles gave a more tortured performance than Davis in my opinion. Eagles made Davis look like a sleep walker.

@rosariodavila7891 8 ай бұрын

En español por favor

@pamplayer4086 9 ай бұрын

I looked it up n pocket full of miracles with BD was the remake of lady for a day in 1933 with may Robson warren Williams Glenda Farrell n guy kibbee

@susanb2015 5 ай бұрын

I've seen both.

@n.emilioaviles 5 ай бұрын

I’ve seen the 1929 version of The Letter with Jeanne Eagels and of course the 1940 classic with the incomparable Bette Davis. I was going to pass on this version until I saw that Lee Remick was in the title role. She is good. The flashbacks are well done but she underplayed the explosive climatic confession that she still loved the man she killed. Given a chance I would love to see Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, or Kate Winslet in the role.

@rosariodavila7891 8 ай бұрын

El estar aburrido o aburrida no te da derecho de traicionar el amor eso es traicion nada.mas

@VasantInamdar 9 ай бұрын

Bette Davis had more fire power.The old version was better

@triepope6429 9 ай бұрын

The SOUND IS LOW!!!!!I CANNOT HEAR IT.......

@ginnylorenz5265 9 ай бұрын

Fine production. Wonderful actors. But it can't touch the original with Bette Davis. In too many ways to try to list. However....I enjoyed it. Good try.

@kayetessari6095 9 ай бұрын

Why keep remaking classics BETTE DAVIS killed in this movie & is the Queen

@alfredbonnabel7022 9 ай бұрын

BD got killed in her movie

@VLind-uk6mb 6 ай бұрын

@@alfredbonnabel7022 Clearly Lee Remick is going to be killed in this one.

@alfredbonnabel7022 6 ай бұрын

@VLind-uk6mb OR, as in the original with Jeanne Eagels lives and tortures her husband with the love of the dead man...

@Beverly-z4t 9 ай бұрын

I thought Lee Remick was very believable in the part. I never saw the Bette Davis version.

@ThePlataf 9 ай бұрын

It's awesome!

@alfredbonnabel7022 9 ай бұрын

So far, I don't care for this rendition of The Letter. Lee Remick was a great actress. However in this, and I've seen Jeanne Eagles & Bette Davis, she's too glib as if it's a tea party. Not the mood for this piece.

@Hellraiser0601 4 ай бұрын

Man, the beginning is just a carbon copy of the Bette Davis movie. Even Lee's wardrobe is very similar to Mrs. Davis.

@ria1636 4 ай бұрын

It's Miss Bette Davis. :)

@diannemiller1895 9 ай бұрын

Now want to see Bette Davis version du to all comments. The acting was bettr than the story.....to me. What was the purpose of revealing all her secrets ? Think would hav written diff ending but did enjoy the movie.

@alfredbonnabel7022 9 ай бұрын

In the original, with Jeanne Eagles she lives and tells her husband that he will have to live with the fact that she killed the only man she loved

@ria1636 4 ай бұрын

@@alfredbonnabel7022 Spoiler Alert!

@Dedette1966 9 ай бұрын

This remake of the 1940s film, "The Letter," is somehow more offensively anti-Asian than the version with Bette Davis. But like the Bette Davis version, misrepresents what was truly brutal about British colonialism. This film doesn’t show that British colonialism was a violent invasion of land and taking of resources. Colonialism wasn’t a civilizing influence.

@NinaKeilin 4 ай бұрын

Interesting that the circumstances of releasing Leslie on bail in this version involve avoiding her being incarcerated with "non-Europeans." That was not so in the earlier version.