"The Story of Temple Drake" (1933) Final

[WindyandGuss]

Thanks so much for taking the time to upload this....I was just looking for some info on the movie and didn't expect to see the whole thing.

Why this movies was considered so risque, I don't know....seemed tame enough. (Maybe just by the standards of Today.)

[ClassicJessie]

Thank you so much for uploading this! I know you've been thanked a millon times but just want to add mine. I've been wanting to see this for a while as a Miriam fan, a pre-Code fan and a film student =)

[miguelallende]

Thank you so much for uploading this film I never though I would ever see it. What a pleasure.

[filmmonthly]

The idea that Temple may have liked Trigger and regretted killing him is incredibly complex. The victim falls pathologically in lust/love with her rapist.

[Pie2]

Thank you!!

[Garboskindredspirit]

Thank you so much, Deneuvefan1939! I've been wanting to see this for years, but couldn't find it anywhere. So glad I finally got to!

[ILikeCalliopes]

Thanks for uploading this film. I just found out about it today through a really interesting film blog. Very bizarre and hallucinatory film.

[RICHARDDAVISMCLEOD]

With this rare public presentation today on the big screen in Hollywood by TCM (4-24-2010 as part of their first Movie Festival), fans can rediscover fine work from cinematographer Karl Struss and a solid cast headed by Miriam Hopkins, whose performance as Temple Drake is one of the greatest "lost" performances in Hollywood history.

The restored 35MM print is provided by The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York for this showing in at Grauman's in Hollywood.

[RICHARDDAVISMCLEOD]

The newly restored print on DVD by TCM should be available after this premiere in Hollywood on April 24, 2010 at the First TCM Festival featuring this film as one of the most forgotten gems of the pre-code era. The new print should be great as this was photographed by the noted cameraman Karl Struss. William Faulkner may have assisted on the script?

[squigian]

Great to see this. Thank you for uploading such a forgotten classic. I love the ending as inconclusive as it is.

[dr1nk1ngm3rcury]

It kind of irks me that they didn't have the scene with Red...

[tremolounge]

THANK YOU, deneuvefan, for making this available -- didn't think I'd ever get to see it....

[RisingSun6]

Falkner have written Sanctuary cause he needed money, even so it became very popular. Got even filmed. The novel was much, much better, though.

[vbabe11111]

uh why is benvaeu crying? is that his heart is broken because he thinks temple was "with" another man or is it that he realized in that moment she was raped and felt ashamed for putting her on the stand??

[GypsyFairy69]

Thanks for uploading this, I've wanted to see it for years. When I was a kid they used to bring the remake with Lee Remick (Sanctuary) on late at night. My dad always said that this was the better version. I'd read in George Raft's bio that he was up for the part of Popeye/Trigger. I don't know how they hit upon Jack LaRue.

Doncha think that Glenn Danzig resembles him? And yeah the novel was better but still this is pretty potent.

[deneuvefan1939]

I'm glad you were finally able to see it. George Raft refused to play the part of Trigger, which caused some trouble for him (I believe he was put on suspension).

[daughterrevolution]

Kind of stupid anticlimactic ending, if you ask me. Bet the novel was better.

[deneuvefan1939]

The ending posed troublesome for Paramount. The Hay's Office insisted that Temple join a Chinese mission (?!?!) at the end as atonement for her "sins." It is important to note that in the final ending of the film, Temple (the murdering "whore"), gets away with it. The following year (1934), this would not be possible with the revised Production Code.

[horationelson57]

thank you very much for this upload! Super!

[CatherineNightingale]

Really good, Miriam Hopkins delivered an excellent performance. Thank you for uploading!

[deneuvefan1939]

I really wish this film would be given some life (I believe it only ran for 2 weeks in 1933 before being pulled, and it has never been shown on tv, or had a home video release). Criterion Collection would do a great package- but I think they see it as a difficult sell - Stephen Roberts is not the "auteur' they usually market, and Miriam Hopkins isn't big enough of a draw. Maybe it will show up on a pre-code dvd set in the near future....

[mndean01]

Well, it depends on who owns the blamed thing. If it's Universal (as most Paramount product pre-1948 is), forget it. I am told they keep their old films from rotting but never bother to release them on DVD unless they have a "name" attached.

As for Stephen Roberts, he had the bad taste to die in the 1930s, which dropped his stock significantly. If you want to see a fairly gripping Roberts revenge fantasy, watch One Sunday Afternoon, which is available. It's the base for The Strawberry Blonde.

[deneuvefan1939]

Universal owns the rights.

[mndean01]

As I suspected. Thanks for the verification.

[Brackish369]

@deneuvefan1939

If this has never been shown on TV or had a DVD or VHS release, curious to know where you got this?

[deneuvefan1939]

It is a 16mm reduction print.

[FireofSekhmet]

Ahhh, Faulkner's ending was so much better. But, can't have everything I suppose. =P

[deneuvefan1939]

The film version has diverged from the source material to the point that comparing the endings seems rather futile.

[bohemian1]

Ruby's look at 7:27 made watching this entire film worthwhile. Exactly how Faulkner probably felt about this whole enterprise.

Thanks for uploading this.

[feaito]

Great Pre-Code!!! Thanks for uploading it!!

[joebstewart]

Thanks very much.