Property Rites
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.
Director: Heather Powell
Writer: Heather Powell
Writer: Carola Klein
Cast
Sally Eldridge
Cathy
Sianna King
Lynn
Len Edwards
Dr. Booker
Paul Farla
Broadside Seller
Alton Douglas
Friend to Justice
Jean Mullholland
Denise Robertson
Catherine Hall
