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The Story of Temple Drake is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stephen Roberts released in USA on 6 may 1933 with Miriam Hopkins
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
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Add to a movie listFor the 1961 film version of the Faulkner novel, see Sanctuary (1961 film).
The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 Pre-Code drama film adapted from the highly controversial novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner. Though watered down, the movie was still so scandalous, it was one of the reasons for the introduction of the Hays Code. It starred Miriam Hopkins as a wild Southern woman who falls into the hands of a gang led by the brutal Trigger, played by Jack La Rue.
The film was remade in 1961, this time under the book's original title, directed by Tony Richardson, and with Lee Remick as Temple Drake, Yves Montand as Trigger (this time renamed Candy), Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes, and Odetta in a rare film appearance.
Long unseen except in bootleg 16mm prints, the film was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and re-premiered in 2011 at the TCM Classic Film Festival.
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Temple Drake, a frivolous young woman from a prominent Mississippi family, is raped and forced into prostitution by Trigger, a backwoods bootlegger, after Trigger shoots and kills a boy who tries to protect her. Another backwoodsman is charged with the murder. When Temple tries to leave Trigger, he becomes angry and is apparently about to assault her, so she grabs his pistol and shoots him, then flees back home to her family. An idealistic lawyer eventually persuades Temple to tell the truth about the first murder on the witness stand and save the defendant's life, even though her testimony will disgrace herself. According to Pre-Code scholar Thomas Doherty, the film implies that the deeds done to her are in recompense for her immorality.Actors
Miriam Hopkins
(Temple Drake)
Jack La Rue
(Trigger)
William Gargan
(Stephen Benbow)
Irving Pichel
(Lee Goodwin)
Elizabeth Patterson
(Aunt Jennie)
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