Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Best movie of this year hands down!

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, and Lew Ayres star in a much watered down version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Letter. If you've seen either or both the Jeanne Eagels or Bette Davis versions you will be vastly disappointed in what the Brothers Warner give us here. The Davis version differs slightly from the original Eagels film, but nothing like what this one is about.Instead of exotic Malaya this is set in America and it involves a woman who married a GI just before him shipping out and then drifts into an affair with a sculptor. As in the other versions we see Ann Sheridan killing him as the film opens and telling LAPD homicide cop John Hoyt that she killed a burglar. Which of course he doesn't buy.Zachary Scott is the husband who stands by her and Lew Ayres provides a spirited defense. If you know the plot of The Letter you know what happens.Taking the setting out of Malaya was a horrible mistake as it robbed the story of the racial component so essential in the plot. Worse was a false happy ending of sorts.The writers were credited with an ORIGINAL screenplay because I'll bet Maugham did not want his name associated with this. I don't blame him.A talented cast wasted on watered down tripe.

Major change for Zachary Scott here. For a change, he is a victim, the husband of an unfaithful wife. He acts accordingly when he discovers Ann Sheridan's discretion.As always, Eve Arden is along for the ride with her snappy one-liners and her usual brilliant sarcasm. In a change for her as well, she really dramatizes it up with her scene with "cousin" Scott, telling him to go easy on Sheridan. For Scott and Arden, this was their re-teaming after "Mildred Pierce," 2 years before.Interesting line here that women left alone during World War 11 resorted to unfaithfulness. It really isn't nice when you think of it, but it works here.Note a solid supporting performance by Jerome Cowan as an aggressive district attorney.

Coming home from a late-night party, Southern California socialite Ann Sheridan (as Christine "Chris" Hunter) is attacked by a man outside the doorway to her home. The shadowy man shoves Ms. Sheridan inside the house, and an off-screen struggle ensues. We are permitted inside, with investigators, to discover Sheridan has stabbed her attacker to death. Soon, understanding lawyer Lew Ayres (as Lawrence "Larry Hannaford) and husband Zachary Scott (as Robert "Bob" Hunter) are there to comfort Sheridan. It seems like an easy self-defense case, but Sheridan may learn that, sometimes, dead men do tell tales… "The Unfaithful" is a familiar story, probably most recognizable in film as W. Somerset Maugham's "The Letter" (1940).There isn't much admirable done with the story. Here, Sheridan's character is portrayed as a woman who "can only stand so much." Where Bette Davis (in 1940) seemed strong, Sheridan seems weak. And, her weakness is applied to women as a group. Note how Ayers' lawyer universally blames females for divorce. And, of course, nobody would question an overseas soldier's fidelity. Still, this version features great locations, and is beautifully photographed and directed by Ernest Haller and Vincent Sherman. Sheridan and the cast perform it well, and gossipy divorcée Eve Arden (as Paula) comes on strong near the end.****** The Unfaithful (6/5/47) Vincent Sherman ~ Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden

***SPOILERS*** Loosely based on the 1940 Bette Davis smash hit "The Letter" by W. Somerset Maugham. The film "the Unfaithful" has successful home builder and decorated combat veteran Bob Hunter, Zachary Scott,finding out to his everlasting shock and humiliation that his wife was cheating on him behind his back when he was with the US Marines in the South Pacific dodging Jap bullets and mortar shells.This all come out when Bob's cheating wife Chris,Ann Sheridan, stabbed to death her ex-lover Michael Tanner, Paul Bradley, when he tried to restart his illicit affair with her one dark evening by breaking into her and Bob's suburban L.A home. Making it look like self-defense it later comes out that Chris had her portrait sculptured by Tanner during the time hubby Bob was risking his life fighting the Japs in Pacific island hellholes like Guadalcanal and Tarawa. It's Bob & Chris'good friend and divorce lawyer Larry Hannaford, Lew Ayres, who discovered this shocking fact when he was contacted by antique dealer Martin Barrow, Steven Geray, whom the late Michael Tanner sold Chris' sculpture to.Trying to keep her relationship with Tanner from her husband Bob Chris ends up making things a lot worse then they already were. It proved that Chris had a good reason in killing Tanner in keeping him from blackmailing her. Barrow who was only interested in collecting the blackmail money, a cool $10,000.00, was overruled by Tanner's grieving wife, Marta Mitrovich, who only wanted revenge by having the already emotionally destroyed Chris sent to the San Quentin gas chamber for her husbands cold-blooded murder. This despite the fact that her two-timing husband Michael was having an affair with Chris while she was home slaving over the stove cooking his supper which, by fooling around with Chris, he rarely ate!***SPOILER ALERT*** It was the wise and experienced, in family matters, Larry Hannaford-Esquire-who set things straight for both Bob & Chris in getting them to put aside their differences and kiss and make up. Larry who deals with situations like husbands and wives who are on the outs saw in both Bob and Chris hope in that they got caught up in things beyond their control: WWII and the difficulties it brought to newlywed couples like themselves. In being separated from Bob for years at a time Chris never really knew if he'll ever come back to her or end up getting himself killed on a Jap controlled Pacicfic island or, while in transit, in a kamikaze suicide attack on his US Navy troopship. ***MAJOR SPOILER*** With Larry's skillful defense of Chris on her first degree murder trial he convinced the jury that it was Michael not Chris who was the person most responsible for his untimely death by not letting go of his obsession for Chris. This lead to a kill or be killed situation with Chris in fighting for her life ending up as the soul survivor. As for the hurt and feeling down in the dumps Bob in Chris dropping him, a decorated combat veteran, for a cowardly 4F draft dodger he, with Larry's help, learned to live with it and take a grateful Chris back thus putting his, and Chris, shattered life back together again.