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Sanctuary(Movie, 1961)

1h 30min | Genre: Drama
SanctuaryRating: 3.3/5 (with 22 votes)
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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About Sanctuary

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Mississippi
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Italian (IT), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date US: 02/21/1961 (World premiere: 04/18/1961)
Director: Tony Richardson
Screenwriter: Ruth Ford
Film Editor: Robert L. Simpson
Composer: Alex North
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Sanctuaire"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: Sanctuary (JP, 1995), Sanctuary (AU, 1995), Sanctuary (JP, 1996), Sanctuary (CA, 1998), Sanctuary (US, 2001), Sanctuary (MY, 2004), Sanctuary (JP, 2006), Sanctuary (2013), Sanctuary (BE/FR/ES, 2015), Sanctuary (DE, 2015), Sanctuary (IE, 2016), Sanctuary (2017), Sanctuary (2018), Sanctuary (MX, 2019), Sanctuary (FR/US, 2023)

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