Property Rites

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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.

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English
  • rape
  • feminist
  • true crime

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United Kingdom

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  • United KingdomGB

    • Premiere14 Jun 1984

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Property Rites was released on 14 June 1984.

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