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The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Stephen Roberts and starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue. It tells the story of Temple Drake, a reckless woman in the American South who falls into the hands of a brutal gangster and rapist.
A pre-code drama based on William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, starring Miriam Hopkins as a Southern belle who is raped and enslaved by a gangster. The film was controversial and banned in some states, and is now a rare and lost masterpiece.
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- Drama
- Stephen Roberts
- 1933-12
Loosely adapted from William Faulkner’s controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge.
- Temple Drake
Sep 21, 2015 · The Story of Temple Drake is a model of pre-Code immorality in at least three ways. First, the open questions posed by the narrative would neither be raised nor answered under the Code. Did Temple enjoy the rape? Did she willingly prostitute herself for Trigger?
A hedonistic woman kills her rapist and admits to it during trial to save a man who is falsely accused.
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- Oscar Apfel
- Stephen Roberts
- Drama
A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers.
When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers’ hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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