The Story of Temple Drake (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 11 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 3, 2019
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan & Jack La Rue | |
Performer: | Guy Standing, Florence Eldridge, Irving Pichel, Jobyna Howland, William Collier, Jr., Elizabeth Patterson & Louise Beavers | |
Directed by | Stephen Roberts | |
Screenplay by | Oliver H.P. Garrett | |
Original story by | William Faulkner | |
Produced by | Benjamin Glazer | |
Director of Photography: | Karl Struss |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
If anyone needs an example of the sort of movie that forced the Hays Office prudes to become moral watchdogs over the American film industry, The Story of Temple Drake will serve just fine.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: 3/4 --
quite a good film apart from its scandalous reputation, which tends to overshadow any of its other accomplishments
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3.5/5 --
What makes it worth watching, even compelling, is Miriam Hopkins's performance.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rating: 7/10 --
Essential Pre-code cinema? Yes.
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The Retro Set
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Made with the full knowledge of how society at large felt about "girls like her," and those stereotypes of the "loose woman" are consistently interrogated and subverted.
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From the Front Row
Rating: C+ --
Dated melodrama.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
William Faulkner's novel SANCTUARY was a notorious bestseller upon its publication in 1931, and while it was successful enough that Paramount Pictures quickly snapped up the film rights, they were forced to change enough of the story to make it fit for the screen (even in the "pre-code" era) that by the time it reached theaters the title had been changed to THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE. Temple (Miriam Hopkins) is a free-spirited girl being raised by a well-respected judge (Guy Standing) after the death of her mother. Temple has a wild streak and a taste for liquor and men she can bend to her will, and while principled lawyer Stephen Benbow (William Gargan) wants to marry her, she's not willing to settle down. While joyriding with Toddy Gowan (William Collier Jr.), a young man with more bravado than sense who wrecks their car, Temple ends up in the decaying home of Lee Goodwin (Irving Pichel), who with leering, sharp suited gangster Trigger (Jack La Rue) makes and sells moonshine. While Lee's life Ruby (Florence Eldridge) and dim-witted helper Tommy (James Eagles) try to protect Temple, cold-hearted Trigger shoots Tommy, rapes Temple and takes her away to the city, where she falls into a relationship with the gangster governed by both attraction and fear. While the most sordid aspects of SANCTUARY were excised by screenwriter Oliver H.P. Garrett and director Stephen Roberts, THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE was still quite controversial on its initial release, and within a few months of its release, Will Hayes and Joseph Breen overhauled the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America's production code and strengthened enforcement of its guidelines on content, making it virtually impossible for a major studio to make a film like it again until the 1960s.
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- UPC: 715515238816
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