Watch Streaming Property Rites (1984) : Movies Without Downloading 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Jun 14, 1984 |
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| Genres | : | Drama |
| Production Company | : | Birmingham Film and Video Workshop |
| Production Countries | : | United Kingdom |
| Casts | : | Sally Eldridge, Sianna King, Len Edwards, Paul Farla, Alton Douglas, Jean Mullholland, Denise Robertson, Catherine Hall |
| Plot Keywords | : | rape, feminist, true crime |
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