The Story of Temple Drake (Sanctuary)

Taste of Cinema's Essential Pre-Code Hollywood (30 movies items)

"The screen adaption of William Faulkner’s Sanctuary is perhaps the most distressing film made in 1930’s Hollywood. Miriam Hopkins stars as the title southern belle who wickedly flirts with half her town, but doesn’t dare to go beyond teasing. One day, she’s held by a gang of bootleggers, whose leader Trigger (Jack La Rue) viciously rapes her, in a powerful scene that effectively shocks the viewer without showing too much. Still startled by the event and ashamed to go back to her family,"