The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
With Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, William Gargan, Irving Pichel, Elizabeth Patterson, Florence Eldridge, Guy Standing, Harold Goodwin
Directed by Stephen Roberts
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.
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