Entertainment & Sports
Nov. 11, 2022
Stream it Tonight! The Letter (1940)
How does Joyce resolve the dilemma that pits friendship against ethical duties?
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Why watch? A married British expat kills her lover and expects her lawyer to destroy evidence and assert a phony defense.
British expatriates Leslie (Bette Davis) and Robert Crosbie (Herbert Marshall) own a Malaysian rubber plantation. Leslie kills her lover Geoff Hammond when he seeks to end their affair. She tells the police that she shot Hammond in self-defense when he broke into her house and tried to sexually assault her while ...
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