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Released
1984 · FILM

Property Rites

Directed by
Runtime
59 min
Drama

Synopsis

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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Principal cast & crew: 13

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Carola KleinShot by Robert SmithScored by Practical Music

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