Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge, Guy Standing. Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1933. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: program featuring a conversation between cinematographer John Bailey and Matt Severson, director of the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, about the film's visual style, along with archival materials relating to its production; new program with critic Imogen Sara Smith about the complexity of the film and its central performance by Miriam Hopkins; new interview with critic Mick LaSalle about the film censorship and the production code; an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
Summary:
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. 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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