
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Cast

Bette Davis
Leslie Crosbie

Herbert Marshall
Robert Crosbie

James Stephenson
Howard Joyce

Frieda Inescort
Dorothy Joyce

Gale Sondergaard
Mrs. Hammond

Bruce Lester
John Withers

Elizabeth Inglis
Adele Ainsworth

Cecil Kellaway
Prescott

Victor Sen Yung
Ong Chi Seng

Doris Lloyd
Mrs. Cooper

Willie Fung
Chung Hi

Tetsu Komai
Head Boy
Zita Baca
Woman (uncredited)

Brooks Benedict
Party Guest (uncredited)
William A. Boardway
Trial Spectator (uncredited)

David Bruce
Man (uncredited)
James Carlisle
Attorney (uncredited)
George Ford
Party Guest (uncredited)

Roland Got
Man (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Party Guest (uncredited)

Holmes Herbert
Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
Charles Irwin
Bob's Friend (uncredited)
Pete G. Katchenaro
Man (uncredited)

Crauford Kent
Robert's Friend at Bar (uncredited)

Carl M. Leviness
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Al Lloyd
Man at Trial (uncredited)
Robert Locke Lorraine
Trial Spectator (uncredited)

Philo McCullough
Trial Spectator (uncredited)

Leonard Mudie
Fred (uncredited)

David Newell
Geoffrey Hammond (uncredited)

Paul Panzer
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Thomas Pogue
Juror #10 (uncredited)

John Ridgely
Driver (uncredited)
Leslie Sketchley
Trial Spectator (uncredited)

Douglas Walton
Well Wisher (uncredited)

Leo White
Man at Trial (uncredited)

Otto Yamaoka
Bartender at Party (uncredited)
Crew

William Wyler
Director, Producer
Howard Koch
Screenplay
Warren Low
Editor
George Amy
Editor

Tony Gaudio
Director of Photography

Hal B. Wallis
Executive Producer
Robert Lord
Associate Producer

Orry-Kelly
Costume Design
Perc Westmore
Makeup Artist
Gordon Bau
Makeup Artist
Dolph Thomas
Sound

Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
Leo F. Forbstein
Music Director
John Villasin
Technical Advisor
Louis Vincenot
Technical Advisor

Jack L. Warner
Executive In Charge Of Production

W. Somerset Maugham
Theatre Play
Carl Jules Weyl
Art Direction

Hugo Friedhofer
Orchestrator
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