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19. Juli 2018 · I can’t explain. It’s just me, it’s something inside me. – Temple Drake. S ome films are challenging to watch. Among the most challenging recently is 1933’s The Story of Temple Drake, a film that’s often cited along with the lost Convention City as one of the key reasons for the Code coming to be in the first place.
The Story of Temple Drake is a film directed by Stephen Roberts with Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, William Gargan, William Collier Jr. .... Year: 1933. Original title: The Story of Temple Drake. Synopsis: A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in ...
Long unseen except in bootleg 16mm prints, ‘The Story of Temple Drake’ was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and re-premiered in 2011 at the TCM Classic Film Festival. The “Pre-Code” period in Hollywood lasted from 1929 (the introduction of sound) until July 1, 1934, when the Production Code went into effect.
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The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Stephen Roberts and starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue. It tells the story of Temple Drake, a reckless woman in the American South who falls into the hands of a brutal gangster and rapist. It was adapted from the highly controversial 1931 novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner. Though some of the more salacious ...
But the film's biggest asset is it terrific star performance from Miriam Hopkins. Sexy, sensual, forthright and a force of nature in her own right, Hopkins' Temple lights up the screen. Her bravura performance is a delight from start to finish, and she is the bedrock that makes Drake a film t owatch.
On its first release, The Story of Temple Drake provoked such criticism, for its overt references to rape and prostitution, that it resulted in the Hays Office tightening Hollywood's censorship rules, severely limiting the portrayal of sex and violence in American cinema for at least two decades. It wasn't until 1961 that Faulkner's novel was remade, under its original title, with Lee Remick ...
It's also a truly outstanding role for Miriam Hopkins, always under-appreciated in my opinion. She plays Temple Drake, a privileged Southern girl and granddaughter of a judge. She's a sexual tease for most of the men in her circle (in the novel she's sexually active) and winds up at decrepit moonshiner's roadhouse where she's raped and then ...
