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The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Keywords
bootlegger
rape
self-defense
rape victim
courtroom
pre-code
southern belle
murder trial
social scandal
county judge
controversial
concealing the truth
Casts

Miriam Hopkins
Temple Drake

William Gargan
Stephen Benbow

Jack La Rue
Trigger

Florence Eldridge
Ruby Lemarr

Guy Standing
Judge Drake

Irving Pichel
Lee Goodwin

Jobyna Howland
Miss Reba

William Collier Jr.
Toddy Gowan

Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Jennie
James Eagles
Tommy
Harlan Knight
Pap

James Pier Mason
Van

Louise Beavers
Minnie
Arthur Belasco
Wharton

Oscar Apfel
District Attorney (uncredited)

Clem Beauchamp
Third Jellybean (uncredited)

John Carradine
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Frank Darien
Gas Station Manager (uncredited)

Harold Goodwin
Second Jellybean / Rejected Suitor (uncredited)

Grady Sutton
Bob (uncredited)

Kent Taylor
First Jellybean (uncredited)
Crews
Oliver H.P. Garrett
Screenplay

William Faulkner
Novel
Stephen Roberts
Director
Karl Hajos
Original Music Composer

Karl Struss
Director of Photography

Travis Banton
Costume Design
Benjamin Glazer
Producer
Bernhard Kaun
Original Music Composer
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