Sanctuary
Tony Richardson | United States of America
April 18, 1961 | 90m
From the Nobel Prize winner...the unadorned truth about the governor's daughter...seared by the fires of her desperate desires...tormented by the new-found emotions within her...
Drama
Overview:
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
Credits
| Lee Remick | Temple Drake |
| Yves Montand | Candy Man |
| Bradford Dillman | Gowan Stevens |
| Harry Townes | Ira Bobbitt |
| Odetta | Nancy Mannigoe |
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Keywords
bootleggerrapebased on novel or bookremakeprivileged lifeliterary adaptationsociety girl
