The Letter
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
John Erman
Lee Remick
Ronald Pickup
Jack Thompson
Ian Mcshane
Christopher Cazenove
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Synopsis
In this sumptuous remake of the 1940 Bette Davis/Herbert Marshall version of Somerset Maugham's tale of smoldering passions on a rubber plantation in the Malayan jungles, Lee Remick and Australian actor Jack Thompson star as the restless wife and her rubber planter husband behind whose back she had been playing around with the man she is now accused of murdering.
Among the various other screen versions of the melodrama: in 1929 with Jeanne Eagels and Herbert Marshall, and in 1947 (as "The Unfaithful") with Ann Sheridan and Zachary Scott (Lew Ayres was the other man). Before this latest version, which won Emmy Awards for photography, art direction/set design and costume design, and nominations for music and makeup, there had been three other TV adaptations: in 1950 with Madeleine Carroll starring; in 1952 with Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond, and in 1956 with Siobhan McKenna, John Mills and Michael Rennie (the other man). On the "Lux Video Theater" version of "The Unfaithful" in 1956, Jan Sterling was the star.
Director
John Erman
Cast
Lee Remick
Ronald Pickup
Jack Thompson
Ian Mcshane
Christopher Cazenove
Kieu Chinh
Wilfrid Hyde-white
Sarah Marshall
Soon-tek Oh
James Hong
Molly Roden
Byron Chung
Beulah Quo
Crew
Jerry Adams
Jack Barron
Jim Benson
Donald Brooks
Richard Church
Anna Cottle
James A. Crabe
George Eckstein
Jack Freeman
Kip Gowans
James Hulsey
Larry Marcus
William Somerset Maugham
Maria Padilla
Laurence Rosenthal
Max Steiner
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Aired in United States May 3, 1982