Property Rites
14/06/1984
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.
Drama
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Sally Eldridge
as Cathy
Sianna King
as Lynn
Len Edwards
as Dr. Booker
Paul Farla
as Broadside Seller
Alton Douglas
as Friend to Justice
Jean Mullholland
as
Denise Robertson
as
Catherine Hall
as
