A 53-minute poison-pen letter thriller that'll have you side-eyeing your own mailbox.
Acting
Geraldine Fitzgerald's widow balancing grief and steel.
Direction
Schaffner's tight framing turns drawing rooms into traps.
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Franklin J. Schaffner's feature debut; he'd later win an Oscar for Patton.
Poison-pen films peaked in 1950s Britain/USPuritanism—this American take keeps the class anxiety but swaps villages for political dynasties.
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