Directed by:
William WylerCinematography:
Tony GaudioComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Cecil Kellaway, Doris Lloyd, Willie Fung, Tetsu Komai (more)Plots(1)
It's nighttime in Malaysia. A full moon is shining. The camera glides along, from left to right, along the exterior of a plantation, past sleeping workers. In the background there is a white house. Suddenly a shot breaks the silence. A bird takes flight. Startled, a dog twists around. A man stumbles onto the veranda, followed by a woman. She holds a gun and keeps firing till she has no more bullets and the body is still. She shuts herself in her room and sends for her husband and the authorities. Why has Leslie Crosbie shot Geoffrey Hammond? (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Bette Davis
USA
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
All About Eve (1950)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Herbert Marshall
UK
Best movies:
The Little Foxes (1941)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
James Stephenson
UK
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Beau Geste (1939)
The Letter (1940)
Frieda Inescort
UK
Best movies:
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Letter (1940)
Gale Sondergaard
USA
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Juarez (1939)
Bruce Lester
South Africa
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Man Hunt (1941)
The Letter (1940)
Cecil Kellaway
South Africa
Best movies:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Doris Lloyd
UK
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
To Each His Own (1946)
Willie Fung
China
Best movies:
Lost Horizon (1937)
China Seas (1935)
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
Tetsu Komai
Japan
Best movies:
History Is Made at Night (1937)
China Seas (1935)
The Criminal Code (1931)
Holmes Herbert
UK
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Captain Blood (1935)
John Ridgely
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Charles Irwin
Ireland
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Leo White
German Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
David Bruce
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The Letter (1940)
Brooks Benedict
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Douglas Walton
Canada
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Crauford Kent
UK
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
Victor Sen Yung
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
Woman on the Run (1950)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
David Newell
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Union Pacific (1939)