"THE LETTER"

(11/15/56)

drama by W. Somerset Maugham, adapted for television by Joseph Schrank, directed by William Wyler in his television debut (backed up by Kirk Browning); British southeast Asia plantation wife having an affair kills her lover before he can leave her for a Chinese woman, claiming self-defense, but the Chinese woman has the letter which the murderess wrote to her lover to set up the meeting; she steals her still-unaware husband's savings so that her lawyer can buy the letter back to protect the reputation of the husband, who is his friend; the wife is acquitted at the trial for lack of evidence, but when the husband learns the truth, he rejects her; stars Siobahn McKena, Michael Rennie, John Mills, Anna May Wong, John Irving.