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Sanctuary is a 1961 drama film directed by Tony Richardson. The film, based on the William Faulkner novels Sanctuary (1931) and Requiem for a Nun (1951), is about the black maid of a white woman who kills the latter's newborn in order to give her employer a way out of a predicament, and then faces the death penalty .
Sanctuary: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes. William Faulkner's steamy tale set in the South in the 1920s. Governer's daughter is seduced and raped by a Cajun who returns after she's married to cause her further trouble.
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe (Odetta), an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's (Lee Remick) infant child.
In 1928, in the county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, a 30-year-old Negro woman, is condemned to death for the willful murder of the infant son of Mrs. Gowan Stevens, the former Temple Drake.
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In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake’s infant child.
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child.
