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Sanctuary

Sanctuary

5.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

11

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1961

Release Year

90 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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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Keywords

bootlegger
rape
based on novel or book
remake
privileged life
literary adaptation
society girl

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