Sanctuary (1961)
1h 30m
Running Time
April 18, 1961Release Date
Sanctuary (1961)
1h 30m
Running Time
April 18, 1961Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Lee Remick
Temple Drake

Yves Montand
Candy Man

Bradford Dillman
Gowan Stevens

Harry Townes
Ira Bobbitt

Odetta
Nancy Mannigoe

Howard St. John
Gov. Drake

Jean Carson
Norma

Reta Shaw
Miss Reba

Strother Martin
Dog Boy

William Mims
Lee

Marge Redmond
Flossie

Jean Bartel
Swede

Hope Du Bois
Mamie

Pamela Raymond
Cora

Dona Lorenson
Connie

Enid Jones
Jackie

Linden Chiles
Randy

Kim Hector
Bucky Stevens

Voltaire Perkins
Judge

Robert Gothie
Gus

Wyatt Cooper
Tommy

Tony Richardson
Director

James Poe
Screenplay

Ruth Ford
Adaptation
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
rape
based on novel or book
bootlegger
remake
privileged life
literary adaptation
society girl
Wiki.
Sanctuary is a 1961 drama film directed by Tony Richardson. The film, based on the William Faulkner novels Sanctuary (1931) and Requiem for a Nun (1951), is about the black maid of a white woman who kills the latter's newborn in order to give her employer a way out of a predicament, and then faces the death penalty.
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