Friday, June 6, 2014

TEMPLE DRAKE

The Story of Temple Drake
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Directed byStephen Roberts
Produced byBenjamin Glazer





Written by
William Faulkner (novel)
Oliver H. P. Garrett
Maurine Dallas Watkins








Starring
Miriam Hopkins
Jack La Rue









Music by
Karl Hajos(uncredited)
Bernhard Kaun(uncredited)
John Leipold(uncredited;additional music)
Ralph Rainger(uncredited;additional music)
CinematographyKarl Struss
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release datesMay 12, 1933
Running time70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish


The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 Pre-Code drama film adapted from the highly controversial novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner.

Though watered down, the movie was still so scandalous, it was one of the reasons for the introduction of the Hays Code.

 It starred Miriam Hopkins as a wild Southern woman who falls into the hands of a gang led by the brutal Trigger, played by Jack La Rue.

The film was remade in 1961, this time under the book's original title, directed by Tony Richardson, and with Lee Remick as Temple Drake, Yves Montand as Trigger (this time renamed Candy), Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes, and Odetta in a rare film appearance.

Richardson's film combines with Faulkner's Requiem, that Richardson had staged for the Royal Court, in the R. Ford adaptation of Faulkner's sequel to "Sanctuary".

Long unseen except in bootleg 16mm prints, the film was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and re-premiered in 2011 at the TCM Classic Film Festival.

 

Temple Drake, a young university student from a prominent Mississippi family, is raped and forced into prostitution by a backwoods character.

An idealistic lawyer eventually persuades her to tell the truth on the witness stand.

According to Pre-Code scholar Thomas Doherty, the film implies that the deeds done to her are in recompense for her immorality.



The relatively upbeat ending of the film is in marked contrast to the ending of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, in which Temple perjures herself in court, resulting in the lynching of an innocent man.

Cast

Production[edit]

George Raft turned down the male lead.[3]

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References[edit]

  1. Jump up ^ "Plot synopsis". Allmovie. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 
  2. Jump up ^ Doherty, Thomas Patrick (1999). Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 117–8. ISBN 0-231-11094-4. 
  3. Jump up ^ PROJECTION JOTTINGS New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 19 Feb 1933: X5.

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