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Sanctuary is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tony Richardson released in USA on 21 february 1961 with Lee Remick

Sanctuary (1961)

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Released in USA 21 february 1961
Length 1h30
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating60% 3.047833.047833.047833.047833.04783

For the 1933 film version of the Faulkner novel, see The Story of Temple Drake.

Sanctuary (1961) is a drama film directed by Tony Richardson. The film, based on the William Faulkner novels Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun, is about the black maid of a white woman who kills the latter's newborn in order to give her employer a way out of a predicament, and then faces the death penalty.

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In 1928, in the county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, a 30-year-old black woman, is condemned to death for the willful murder of the infant son of her white employer Mrs. Gowan Stevens, the former Temple Drake. On the eve of the scheduled execution, Temple tries to save Nancy by telling her father, the governor, of the events leading up to the murder.

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