The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely. Favorites: Godzilla (1954), The Story of Temple Drake (1933), Vampyr (1932), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). The Story of Temple Drake. I didn't know quite what to expect since this movie is apparently one of the reasons for the Hays Code. This notorious film was a catalyst for the Code. My case is that whatever judgment of Temple's love life depicted in the film seems to be coming only from the townfolk. The Story of Temple Drake was released in 1933, just before Joseph Breen and the new Production Code Administration arrived with the power to censor Hollywood films. Christian is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. How much violence would have been in a Hitchcock film? Mobile site. However, The Story of Temple Drake may well be regarded as a watered-down version of the original, in which the brutal rape of its antiheroine is a centerpiece that goes on and on, with a vividly detailed sense of reality gone deeply wrong. Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of a well-bred Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. Added to Watchlist. Far from crude or in-your-face, actually, the direction is suggestive enough to convey the atrocities in the novel without having to denaturalize itself. Some fateful night, she leaves with one of them, who is drunk. Very risqué pre-Code film starring the very beautiful and talented Miriam Hopkins. SuperSkrullBros 0 points 1 point 2 points 10 months ago . DVD List Price: $29.95. A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. Mary uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Watched When We Were Kings. How much sex in a Billy Wilder picture? (Nor is the film really a ‘rape revenge’ drama, as it’s frequently described.) © Letterboxd Limited. The Story of Temple Drake may be a pre-Code release, but don’t forget that the film studios still faced some restrictions. . THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE (director: Stephen Roberts; screenwriters: Oliver H.P. This list is for scripts or source material written or co-written by women. The ideal Pre-Code movie. She's loved by lawyer Stephen Benbow, whom she likes but doesn't love. Drinking to excess, pervasive promiscuity, misogynistic violence, and enough skin to shock a depression-era film-goer. Even when there is little to no on-screen violence for a take on such ferocious book, the acting and the cinematography --with occasional emphasis on the heaviness of guns (aided by the sound department) and the Shakespearean-like rubbing of blood stains-- almost make up for it. The emotions are simplified and the story is very basic - films were still relatively young so audiences weren’t ready for nuance. Anything with more than 1,000 views on Letterboxd that’s longer…, Updated: March 19, 2021 Created: January 13, 2013 View More Lists Follow Me, ——————————————————————— CRITERION CHALLENGE 2021 ➔ ———————————————————————. I'm sure they would have, but how? What does George Raft have to do with The Story of Temple Drake?Paramount originally cast Raft in the Trigger role eventually played with terrifying effectiveness by Jack La Rue. TMDb 1933 The Story of Temple Drake has long been considered one of the films that so shocked audiences that it led to the tighter restrictions brought in by … Mobile site. Based on Sanctuary, William Faulkner's explosive masterpiece of lurid sensationalism, this pre-Code adaptation, with its minor and more significant changes from the source material, still retains some of the story's impressive … Gr8 list of movies that are short but aren't actually short movies, y'know? (1933) Not Rated | 70 min | Drama. Give me a fucking break. What sort of movies would have been made by the great filmmakers in the decades that followed. They have whispered about girls like this for generations . Not a great film but an important one perhaps. Synopsis: Temple Drake is a Southern belle who leads men on with her sexuality but usually leaves them wanting. The only other major character in the film, the lawyer, doesn't ever really view her in this light and is more closely aligned to the film's view of her. A lot of films in this era tend to have over-written and melodramatic woman characters who are aided by men but Temple Drake is a morally ambiguous and fascinating construct by both writer and Miriam Hopkins via performance. Synopsis. Sources include IMDb, Wikipedia, pre-code.com and the…, David Blakeslee 4,273 films 770 59 Edit, Updated on 4/3/2021 - A list, arranged in order of original release, of all films associated with the Criterion Collection,…, This list was spawned from a conversation I had with a friend of mine, who was looking for some horror…. It’s fueled by Degradation: economic, moral, architectural (“the gutted ruin rising gaunt and stark out of a grove of unpruned cedar trees known as the Old Frenchman place”), and most of all, degradation of the virtue of Southern maidenhood. Strange and exciting blend of the surreal, almost postmodern, in the figure of the city gangster mixing with southern gothic. The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely. Film data from TMDb. Loosely adapted from William Faulkner’s controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. Faulkner was open about his deliberate attempt to write a trashy bestseller, and Sanctuary succeeded wildly in scandal-driven sales. Most of the disturbing plot developments happen off-screen so it's the after-effects that the audience sees. The thing I most appreciated about this film (and the novel) is how fully-formed and complex Temple Drake is. Hopkins is very good and it benefits from been made so close to Faulkner's novel, the movie for all its attempts to tame down Sactuary to a releaseble form still allow her situation to be felt in a way a more prestige later version couldn't. permalink; save; context; full comments (42) give award; Just Joined Letterboxd and I Need Some Cinephile Follows/Followers by SexDrugsAzpilicueta in criterion. Pungent Southern Gothic atmosphere, smelling of sin and vice. 19, temple drake deserved better! Showing all 5 items. Jack La Rue looking like a Dick Tracy villain come to life. 72 minutes. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers’ hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that … This picture exhibits several traits that distinguishes it from movies made following the strict enforcement of the Hays code. College girl Temple Drake (Miriam Hopkins) lived a faster life than her respected Southern family deemed proper. My "4 favorites" is not my actual favorites but movies I watched recently that I'm obsessed with. I don’t rate her hugely as an actor: I find her fun to…, 50 Days 50 Pre-Code Pictures: Picture #33:The Story Of Temple Drake_____________________________________. 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. The Story of Temple Drake. Price: $20.95. Report this film. . Based on Sanctuary, William Faulkner's explosive masterpiece of lurid sensationalism, this pre-Code adaptation, with its minor and more significant changes from the source material, still retains some of the story's impressive undercurrent of evil. De cuando Hollywood adaptaba a William Faulkner... La maravillosa historia de una niña sucia. In the two films she is played, respectively, by Miriam Hopkins and Lee Remick. The car accident that follows turns into the threashold of hell, as Temple falls prey to a perverse gangster belonging to a band of bootleggers in a small town. It is considered one of his more controversial works, given its theme of rape. Temple Drake likes to flirt and enjoy men’s company but always seems to leave them “pent up”. The Story of Temple Drake (Criterion Collection) DVD Qty: Add to Cart. This is a really intriguing pre-code Hollywood movie that may have directly led to the censored era of movies during the subsequent code era. The Story of Temple Drake (1933) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Based on Sanctuary, William Faulkner's explosive masterpiece of lurid sensationalism, this pre-Code adaptation, with its minor and more significant changes from the source material, still retains some of the story's impressive undercurrent of evil. Temple Drake is a Southern belle who leads men on with her sexuality but usually leaves them wanting. Apr 11, 2007. About this list: Movies that I predict will get a release or upgrade by the Criterion Collection. Now for the first time somebody has the courage to frankly tell you about them! I'm not at all suggesting that the pre-code area was a free for all where there was no censorship. The Story of Temple Drake opened so strong at New York’s Paramount that it topped box office receipts for the entire previous week in just its first three days playing at the theater. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation. This is a movie that letterboxd made me want to see, when I first joined the site and was wandering through page after page of lists and filmographies blown away by how user friendly it was compared to IMDB this film, or at least this poster, seemed to be everywhere. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Directed by Stephen Roberts. Also, it features a guy standing whose real name was Guy Standing. You Save: $9.00 (30%) Share. This review may contain spoilers. When the Code went full force the next year, The Story of Temple Drake and many other films were pulled from the screens rather than submit to drastic cuts or reshoots. mad props for Miriam Hopkins for playing this role and doing it so masterfully. The Story of Temple Drake is based on the lurid novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner. The Story of Temple Drake (Criterion Collection) DVD. Jayce Fryman 18,680 films 3,511 115 Edit, This list collects every film from the Starting List that became They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 1000 Greatest Films. Would things been all that different? © Letterboxd Limited. 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. But the rules were looser and it was an environment where a movie like The Story of Temple Drake could…. Audience Reviews for The Story of Temple Drake. Both the novel and film provide us with a fascinating deconstruction of the societal implications of the Prohibition era and gender politics. I can handle the truth. I’m sick of sorting through concerts, series, and other non-movies. The film cuts to a sequence depicting the town gossiping about what Temple may have been upto when in reality she is suffering…. Another film to fall in the Kappela problem, where I seem to have interpreted the film to be sympathetic to its female lead while others seem to have interpreted this to be a cautionary tale moralizing the female lead and indicating she reaps what she sows. 设定很大胆但完成度很水，看到结尾庭审不由得脑补出一副pre-code编剧们抱着字典思考用哪个词既能达意又不会被剪掉的场景【与当代简中环境何等相似（苦笑脸）】喜欢破宅的光影，顺便打卡Florence. Expressionistically lighted and metaphorically dark, the nightmare-evoking film co-stars William Gargan, Guy Standing, Irving Pichel, and, specially, Jack La Rue as Trigger, a mild yet nevertheless adequate stand-in for Faulkner's Popeye, one of literature's most monstrous villains. Except the argument of this film seems to be if Temple only settled for a fiancé of somewhat reputable quality and not played the field she wouldn’t have gotten into this whole mess. The book was particularly brutal in detailing the sexual assaults on its central figure, the young woman named Temple Drake, by Popeye – he is impotent, so his initial attack is made with a corncob, while later he brings in a fellow criminal to have sex with Temple while he watches them. She's loved by lawyer Stephen Benbow, whom she likes but doesn't love. The car accident that follows turns into the threashold of hell, as Temple falls prey to a perverse gangster belonging to a band of bootleggers in a small town. May Catholics writing the Hays Code watching this movie: “This one, this one right here officer.”. Recs welcome! This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. The best Southern Gothic undermines myths and titillates readers and viewers. Temple Drake is a fictional character created by William Faulkner. She's loved by lawyer Stephen Benbow, whom she likes but doesn't love. Faulkner skillfully delays and hides the most lurid of the details…. Nevertheless, The Story of Temple Drake found its way to screens, heralded by publicity that was a fine instance of pre-Code ballyhoo: “S-h-h-h! While out carousing with one of her beaux, she finds herself stranded with a gang of bootleggers, one of whom, Trigger, rapes her and makes her his sex slave. She appears in the novels Sanctuary (1931) and Requiem for a Nun (1951). While the films released between 1930 and mid-1934 certainly pushed boundaries much … It was banned in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Production Code Administration head Joseph Breen ordered that the film never be re-released once the Production Code came into effect in mid-1934. So, according to this film, a rape victim is somehow obligated to "redeem" herself by reliving her trauma in court, destroying her own reputation irrevocably and incriminating herself, in order to save a violent drunk who, were it not for his wife's intervention, would almost surely have raped her himself, and thereby denying his wife and their infant child an escape from an abusive relationship, all in the name of some bullshit ideal of truth and God? I Talked Yesterday About Being Drawn To These Pictures By The Names And Ending Up Being Disappointed With The Poor Quality Of The Pictures, The Performances Carry Them, Well Here This Is Not Only A Great Picture But It Also Possesses An Outstanding Performance From Miriam Hopkins, This Is Without Doubt One Of The Best Pictures Of This Marathon, And One Of The Best Pre-Code Pictures I've Seen, This Is The Type Of Picture That Makes Me Love Pre-Code, The Things That Are Sometimes Shown But Most Implied Are A Sight To Behold, I Couldn't Imagine How People In 1933 Reacted To This One. 2: Underrated and Obscure Gems Ultimate Film Canon pt.…, This list is an attempt to collect as many Pre-Code movies as possible. It's taken me a while, in fact I watched the first 20 minutes about 6 months ago having found it split…. Miriam Hopkins William Gargan Jack La Rue Florence Eldridge Guy Standing Irving Pichel Jobyna Howland William Collier Jr. Elizabeth Patterson James Eagles Harlan Knight Jim Mason Louise Beavers Arthur Belasco Oscar Apfel Clem Beauchamp John Carradine Frank Darien Harold Goodwin Grady Sutton Kent Taylor, Levada à Força, La déchéance de miss Drake, Das Haus des Unheils, 71 mins   She was so good as the complex, antiheroine. The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 American pre-Code rape and revenge film directed by Stephen Roberts and starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue. Temple Drake (Miriam Hopkins) is an extremely frivolous upper-class party girl who enjoys teasing her ever-growing number of hapless suitors. Shame the final act is a wipe out. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers’ hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her … Took me a year to work through…, Ⓚⓔⓥⓘⓝ Ⓗⓐⓦⓚⓘⓝⓢ 1,000 films 2,393 69 Edit, Ultimate Film Canon pt. But it is exquisitely lit and framed by Karl Struss (who shot Murnau’s Sunrise), and Hopkins’ performance is interesting. 1,456 films watched. Like The Cheat (1931), it has a handful of bravura moments and a salaciousness that would soon be outlawed, rather than being a consistently satisfying experience; its story is inert and as a result quite boring in places. Bio: On a quest to watch every movie. The 1962 play Requiem for a Nun and the films The Story of Temple Drake (1933) and Sanctuary (1961) also feature the character. It’s a distinguished bloodline, with grandfather being the most respected judge in the county, but there are ru… Marketa Lazarova. Stunning cinematography by Karl Struss (Sunrise). Mystery Train. Far from crude or in-your-face, actually, the direction is suggestive enough to convey the atrocities in the novel without having to denaturalize itself. Join here. Roma. Some fateful night, she leaves with one of them, who is drunk. How much language in a Howard Hawks movie? IMDb 2: Underrated and Obscure Gems. Drunkenness, rape, murder, and a careless and privileged girl whose flirtatious games take her from the sorority house and land her first in a corn crib with a syphilitic bootlegger, then a Memphis bordello, and then on the witness stand. 2016. One of the ones you had to see to have a handle on 1930s Hollywood, which, however many Tsui Hark films I binge on, is probably my favourite period of movie making. Every time I watch a pre-code movie I can't help but wonder what would have happened in movies had the Hays Code not taken effect. Provocative and racy this hard to find film is loaded with infamy. 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