Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, & James Eagles in The Story of Temple Drake (1933, dir. Stephen Roberts), adapted from Faulkner’s scandalous 1931 novel, Sanctuary “Motionless, facing one another like the first position of a dance, they stood in a mounting terrific muscular hiatus.” -William Faulkner, Sanctuary

Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, & James Eagles in The Story of Temple Drake (1933, dir. Stephen Roberts), adapted from Faulkner’s scandalous 1931 novel, Sanctuary

“Motionless, facing one another like the first position of a dance, they stood in a mounting terrific muscular hiatus.”

-William Faulkner, Sanctuary