Sanctuary

From the Nobel Prize winner...the unadorned truth about the governor's daughter...seared by the fires of her desperate desires...tormented by the new-found emotions within her...

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1961 / 90min.

Rating5.3

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Strother Martin

Lee Remick

Linden Chiles

Jean Carson

Yves Montand

Harry Townes

Howard St. John

Reta Shaw

Bradford Dillman

Marge Redmond

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