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Leslie shoots him dead
- Hammond falls in love with a Chinese woman, however, and Leslie shoots him dead. Placed on trial for her life, Leslie convinces both the jury and her husband that she killed Hammond in defense of her honor.
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Leslie claims that she killed Hammond to save her honor. She is placed under arrest, jailed in Singapore, and charged with murder. Her eventual acquittal seems a foregone conclusion, as the White community not only believes her story but feels she had acted heroically.
Leslie tearfully admitted her affair with Hammond; Hammond's Eurasian wife - who blackmailed them, was offering to sell it for $10,000 - an amount that would empty her long-suffering husband Robert's bank account; the retrieval of the letter and exchange of money had to be conducted personally
The first scene that William Wyler filmed was the famous opening shot in which Leslie shoots Geoffrey Hammond. This sequence, which lasted two minutes on screen, took an entire day to film, and that was before even a single word of dialogue was spoken.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- William Wyler
- 1940-11-23
Howard: When did you first suspect that Hammond was serious? Leslie: The next thing he said to me. He looked at me straight in the face and said, 'Don't you know I'm awfully in love with you?'
While her husband inspects his rubber planatation, Leslie Crosbie murders Geoffrey Hammond. His widow has a letter written by Leslie asking him to meet her as her lover the night of the murder. Leslie can buy the letter but must come for it herself.
His suspicions are confirmed when his clerk, Ong Chi Seng (a wonderfully creepy Sen Yung), offers to sell him a letter Leslie had written to Hammond on the day he was killed. In the letter, Leslie begs Hammond to come visit her.
Confronted with the truth, Leslie confesses her guilt and her love for Hammond, and although her husband forgives her, Mrs. Hammond cannot and stabs Leslie, making her pay for Hammond's life with her own.
