Sanctuary (1961)

Directors

Tony Richardson

Cast

Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes, Howard St. John, Jean Carson, Lee Remick, Linden Chiles, Marge Redmond, Odetta, Reta Shaw, Strother Martin, Yves Montand

The story

In 1928 in Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, a Black woman named Nancy Mannigoe is condemned to death for the willful murder of the infant son of her white employer Mrs. Gowan Stevens, the former Temple Drake. On the eve of the scheduled execution, Temple tries to save Nancy by telling her father, the governor, of the events preceding the murder in flashback sequences beginning six years earlier, when Temple was a college girl dating Gowan Stevens.

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