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W. Somerset Maugham: The Letter

on BBC Two England

Dramatised by Hugo Charteris
[Starring] Eileen Atkins as Leslie Crosbie, Andre Morell as George Joyce, Peter Bowles as Robert Crosbie, Eric Young as Ong Chi Seng

At the Crosbie bungalow one night the only sound is the noise of the generator and cicadas. Suddenly two shots ring out. Hammond, mortally wounded, staggers through to the verandah and collapses. Leslie Crosbie stands over his body and empties the revolver into him...
(Colour) [Repeat]
(Christopher Morahan received one of the SFTA awards for his direction of "The Letter" and Verity Lambert for the production of this series.)

Contributors

Author:
W. Somerset Maugham
Dramatised by:
Hugo Charteris
Title music composed by:
Wilfred Josephs
Lighting:
Ken McGregor
Script Editor:
Andrew Brown
Designer:
Richard Henry
Producer:
Verity Lambert
Director:
Christopher Morahan
Leslie Crosbie:
Eileen Atkins
George Joyce:
Andre Morell
Robert Crosbie:
Peter Bowles
Ong Chi Seng:
Eric Young
Geoffrey Hammond:
Gary Watson
Houseboy:
Kim Kee Lim
Houseboy:
John A. Tinn
Houseboy:
Tu Kwee Tong
Ayah:
Gowri Gunasekara
A.D.O.:
Graham James
Prison Governor:
Jim Collier
Clark:
Howard Lang
Smith:
Eric Longworth
Storekeeper:
Ching Looi
Chinese man:
Wellington Lee
Chinese boy:
Daryll Lwin
Chinese woman:
Mary Ten Pow
Mrs Joyce:
Doreen Mantle

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