Love Letters (1945)Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen... Director:William Dieterle |
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Love Letters (1945)Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen... Director:William Dieterle |
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| Joseph Cotten | ... |
Allen Quinton
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Ann Richards | ... | |
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Cecil Kellaway | ... |
Mac
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Beatrice Remington
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Helen Wentworth
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Robert Sully | ... |
Roger Morland
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Defense Counsel Phillips
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Ernest Cossart | ... |
Bishop
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Derek Quinton
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When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen." Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
This film is more than just the best of the "other fellow writes love notes" genre. The Ayn Rand screenplay, though a potboiler, conveys the absolutist nature of true romantic love, which certainly dovetailed nicely with her objectivist philosophy. Jennifer Jones is lovely as ever, and extremely convincing in her amnesiac role. A fine film.