A Letter to Three Wives Movie Review
A Letter to Three Wives Review
"A Letter to Three Wives" Overview
Rating: NR
1949
Cast and Crew
Director : Joseph L. MankiewiczProducer : Sol C. Siegel
Screenwiter : Vera Caspary,Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring : Jeanne Crain,Linda Darnell,Ann Sothern,Kirk Douglas,Paul Douglas,Barbara Lawrence,Jeffrey Lynn,Connie Gilchrist,Florence Bates,Hobart Cavanaugh
It's almost too clever. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's biting story presents three
girlfriends headed out for a day trip who receive a letter addressed to the
group -- the writer, one Addie Ross, has run off with one of their husbands.
But which one?
What follows is some of the best dialogue to come out of the postwar era, a
parlor room mystery as we dig into the pasts of the three women to try and
figure out which husband has had enough. Keeps you on the edge of your seat
but, boy, does the film take itself seriously at times.
Recommended.
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Review by Christopher Null 
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