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Won't Back Down
2012 · Drama
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24 votes
Blinded by the fury of passion - by the despair of a lost love -- she had not reckoned with "The Letter"
A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.
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CinemaSerf
June 6, 2022
This is a superb character-driven performance from Jeanne Eagels as the bored wife who turns from her indifferent husband "Robert" (Reginald Owen) to the caddish "Geoffrey" (Herbert Marshall). When the latter shows her his true colours, he gets his comeuppance and a trial ensues. Provocation bordering on attempted rape is cited and she looks set for acquittal until it emerges that his Chinese mistress is in possessio…
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