Sanctuary

1961

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SANCTUARY directed by Tony Richardson, starring Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dill­man and Odetta; screenplay by Ruth Ford and James Poe, based on works by William Faulkner (1961).

In 1928 Mississippi, t.he black maid of a white woman kills the latter's newborn in order to give her employer a way out of a predicament and then faces the death penalty.

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