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Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen...
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  • Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 nomination.
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Victoria Morland aka Singleton
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Alan Quinton
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Dilly Carson
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Mac
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Beatrice Remington
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Helen Wentworth
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Roger Morland
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Defense Counsel Phillips
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Bishop
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Derek Quinton
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harry Allen ...
Farmer (uncredited)
Conrad Binyon ...
Boy in Library (uncredited)
Nina Borget ...
Italian Waitress (uncredited)
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Judge (uncredited)
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Cart Driver (uncredited)
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Postman (uncredited)
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Dodd (uncredited)
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Jeanette Campbell (uncredited)
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Clara Foley (uncredited)
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Nurse in Italy (uncredited)
Helena Grant ...
Attendant (uncredited)
Ethyl May Halls ...
Mary (uncredited)
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Mr. Quinton (uncredited)
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Mrs. Quinton (uncredited)
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Jupp (uncredited)
George Humbert ...
Italian Innkeeper (uncredited)
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Nurse (uncredited)
Connie Leon ...
Nurse (uncredited)
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Young Man at Party (uncredited)
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Trial Spectator (uncredited)
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Jim Connings (uncredited)
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Elderly Nurse (uncredited)
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Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Constance Purdy ...
Old Hag (uncredited)
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Vicar (uncredited)

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William Dieterle ... (directed by)

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Ayn Rand ... (screen play by)
 
Christopher Massie ... (from the novel "Pity My Simplicity" by) (as Chris Massie)

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Hal B. Wallis ... producer (produced by)

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Victor Young

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Lee Garmes ... director of photography

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Anne Bauchens

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Roland Anderson
Hans Dreier

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Ray Moyer
Sam Comer ... (uncredited)

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Edith Head

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Wally Westmore ... makeup supervisor

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Richard McWhorter ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Don Johnson ... sound recordist
Don McKay ... sound recordist

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Farciot Edouart ... process photography
Gordon Jennings ... special photographic effects
Loyal Griggs ... process photography assistant (uncredited)
Paul K. Lerpae ... special photographic effects assistant (uncredited)

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Homer Plannette ... gaffer (uncredited)
Harry Webb ... second camera operator (uncredited)

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Sidney Cutner ... orchestrator (uncredited)
George Parrish ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Leo Shuken ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Philip Wisdom ... music mixer (uncredited)

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David O. Selznick ... artists by arrangement with: Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten
Geoffrey Steele ... technical advisor (as Geoffrey Steele, Lieut. R.A.R.O. The Royal Dragoons)
Victor Stoloff ... dialogue director
Montfort F. Creves ... technical advisor: hospital scenes (uncredited)
Gladys Percey ... research director (uncredited)
Dorothy Robinson ... research assistant (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

After 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 falls 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, Alan." Written by Dale O'Connor

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Also Known As
  • Le Poids d'un mensonge (France)
  • Liebesbriefe (Germany)
  • Cartas a mi amada (Spain)
  • Listy miłosne (Poland)
  • Liebesbriefe (Austria)
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  • 101 min
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Trivia The role of Singleton was initially planned for Ann Richards, but after Jennifer became available, Richards ended up playing Dilly, Singleton's friend. See more »
Goofs Dilly Carson relates to Alan Quinton that she found Singleton sitting by the fireplace with a bloody knife and a letter from which Dilly quotes the signature line, "I think of you my dearest as the distance promise of beauty". But during the climactic flashback, we see the letter with that very line burning in the fireplace. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Mommie Dearest (1981). See more »
Quotes Singleton: I think very few people are happy. They wait all their lives for something to happen to them - something great and wonderful. They don't know what it is but they wait for it. Sometimes it never happens. What they want is the kind of spirit I found in those letters. A spirit that makes life beautiful. I love that man. I loved him more than my own life. I still love him. So you see, I couldn't have loved Roger Moreland, the man I killed.
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