The Story of Temple Drake (1933)

Directed by

Stephen Roberts

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A reckless Southern woman gets kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a violent gangster. The story follows her struggle for survival in a dangerous rural underworld.

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What happens

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. It was adapted from the highly controversial 1931 novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner. Though some of the more salacious elements of the source novel were not included, the film was still considered so indecent that it helped give rise to the strict enforcement of the Hays Code. Long unseen except in bootleg 16mm prints, The Story of Temple Drake was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and re-premiered in 2011 at the TCM Classic Film Festival. The Criterion Collection released the film for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray in December 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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