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The story of Temple Drake / a Paramount Picture ; Paramount presents ; screen play by Oliver H.P. Garrett ; directed by Stephen Roberts.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3095DDVD | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection ; 1006.Publisher: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Edition: DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681436678
  • 1681436671
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sanctuary
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Photography, Karl Struss.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge, Guy Standing, Irving Pichel, Jobyna Howland and William Collier, Jr.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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Aspect ration(1.33: 1); Dolby Audio, mono.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge, Guy Standing, Irving Pichel, Jobyna Howland and William Collier, Jr.

Photography, Karl Struss.

From the novel by William Faulkner.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1933.

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.

Special edition features: new program featuring a conversation between cinematographer John Bailey and Matt Severson, director of the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, about the film's visual style, as well as archival materials relating to its production; new program featuring critic Imogen Sara Smith on 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; plus: an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien

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