Property Rites

Name: Property Rites
Director: Heather Powell
Released: 1984-06-14
Duration: 59 min
Cast: Sally Eldridge, Sianna King, Len Edwards, Paul Farla, Alton Douglas

Jun 14, 1984 · 59m · Drama

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Director Heather Powell

Writer Heather Powell

Overview

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.