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...
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.
- Sexual violence
- Harm to children
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Cast
- Lee RemickTemple Drake
- Yves MontandCandy Man
- Bradford DillmanGowan Stevens
- Harry TownesIra Bobbitt
- OdettaNancy Mannigoe
- Howard St. JohnGovernor Drake
- Jean CarsonNorma
- Strother MartinDog Boy
- Reta ShawMiss Reba
- William MimsLee
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- Tony RichardsonDirector
- James PoeScreenplay
- William FaulknerNovel
- Ellsworth FredericksDirector of Photography
- Alex NorthOriginal Music Composer
- Robert L. SimpsonEditor
- Darryl F. ZanuckProducer
- Richard D. ZanuckProducer
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