Property Rites
14 June 1984| 59 min
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.
Genres
Drama
Cast
Sally Eldridge
Sianna King
Len Edwards
Paul Farla
Alton Douglas
Jean Mullholland
Denise Robertson
Catherine Hall
