The Letter

1929 · 65 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 610 VOTES · DIR. Jean de Limur

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Overview

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

Dialogue Timeline — 898 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:39 What kind of a joint is this?
00:07:30 "Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word.
00:11:45 you've got a damn funny way of showing it.
00:13:09 Because I love you.
00:14:36 I swear that I'll kill myself!
00:16:55 when I heard footsteps, and someone came on the veranda.
00:18:40 Never mind.
00:20:22 so I lost my temper,
00:22:12 My eyes, and...
00:24:12 until the night of the murder?
00:27:02 no matter what people might say.
00:29:10 was written the night of Mr. Hammond's death.
00:31:08 Of course, the money must be in cash.
00:33:22 They'd soon find out whether someone took a letter to Hammond
00:34:47 I must've been very much mistaken.
00:36:29 Who has the real letter?
00:38:18 in placing before the judge a request
00:43:46 I'm gonna fix it for you for $20.
00:48:46 It is possible! That is why you killed Mr. Hammond!
00:52:00 I say, Howard,
00:54:38 Now, we must have a toast before we go.
00:57:09 He was still everything in the world to me.
00:58:31 What I wanted was love, affection, happiness,
01:00:00 I still love the man I killed!

Cast & Characters

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)

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed898
Dialogue density13.8 lines / min
First line00:01:39
Final line01:00:00

Production Record

DirectorJean de Limur
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes610

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