The Story of Temple Drake (1933) on Netflix
Temple Drake, reckless granddaughter of a Mississippi judge, refuses to marry her lawyer suitor. She goes out with Toddy Gowan, who is drinking and crashes the car near a plantation house.
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Temple Drake is the reckless granddaughter of a small-town Mississippi judge. She will not marry her lawyer suitor, Stephen Benbow, and the town takes her for a seductress. She goes out with Toddy Gowan, who has been drinking, and he crashes the car near a dilapidated plantation home where Lee Goodwin runs a speakeasy. Trigger, a bootlegger and gangster there, forces them inside the house.
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The Hays Office ordered Paramount to reshoot the rape sequence in a barn and banned any footage of a corncob, after the original cut showed Trigger penetrating Temple with a corn cob during the assault in a corn crib, as in Faulkner's novel.- George Raft was initially cast as the gangster Trigger but dropped out, calling the part "screen suicide" since the character had no redeemable qualities; he also demanded a $2 million salary, was temporarily suspended by Paramount, and was replaced by Jack La Rue.
- Censors also made Paramount cut footage and dialogue showing that Reba's home was a brothel, so it passed as a boarding house; Ruby's line using the slang word "chippie" was covered by a clap of thunder.
- Even before filming had begun, the film was publicly condemned by U.S. women's leagues, an article in The New York Times, and the Roman Catholic Church.
