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- Drama
Overview
Partly based on a true event, the death in 1817 of a Birmingham woman, Mary Ashford, and the consequent trial of a local man, Abraham Thornton, for her rape and murder. The film is concerned with the response of her contemporaries to her behaviour on the night before she died, and by situating this within the fictional circumstances of a modern woman, explores current attitudes to rape, and the forces and assumptions underlying them.
Keywords
- rape
- true crime
- feminist
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 14, 1984
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Birmingham Film and Video Workshop
- Cast
- Denise Robertson,Len Edwards,Sianna King,Alton Douglas,Catherine Hall,Jean Mullholland,Paul Farla,Sally Eldridge
- Director
- Heather Powell
- Writer
- Heather Powell,Carola Klein
- Producer
- Roger Shannon
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt14544522