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...
1961 · NR · 1h 30m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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…
Director: Tony Richardson
Writers: James Poe, William Faulkner
Music by: Alex North
Cinematography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Editor: Robert L. Simpson