The Letter
A planter's wife shoots down a family friend, claiming that he tried to rape her. But someone very close to the dead man holds a letter, in the woman's handwriting, that casts a very different light on the fatal night's events.
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"Easy to imagine that there was only ever the Bette Davies version of "The Letter" but back in the late 1960's the BBC made an excellent series of Maugham short-story adaptations. This one starring (later Dame) Eileen Atkins was award-winning. They were transferred to film for overseas sales but oddly were never, as far as I know, shown again in the UK. As they were shot in colour unlike an earlier ITV series which was in black and white, they could, as are other programmes of similar vintage, still be shown on the digital channels. I'm not aware that there have been subsequ..."
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The only surviving print of this episode is the version prepared for French broadcast. Consequently, it only survives dubbed in French. The original English audio track is presumed lost.
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A planter's wife shoots down a family friend, claiming that he tried to rape her. But someone very close to the dead man holds a letter, in the woman's handwriting, that casts a very different light on the fatal night's events.