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198459m

Status

Released

Release

1984

Runtime

59m

Storyline

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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
59m
Jun 14, 1984
Languages
English
Production Countries
United Kingdom