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Screen legend Cary Grant stars as a gangster trying to put his troubled past behind him in Gambling Ship. Weary Chicago racketeer Ace Corbin (Grant) and Eleanor La Velle (Benita Hume), the mistress of infamous gambling ship operator Joe Burke (Arthur Vinton), put their troubled pasts behind on a train bound to New York. With their true identities concealed, the two fall madly in love. A disastrous combination results when Ace makes efforts to purchase the debt-ridden gambling ship from Joe and steals the gambling trade of his old enemy and gangster Pete Manning (Jack La Rue).

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Loosely adapted from William Faulkner’s controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers’ hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely. Steeped in southern gothic shadows by influential cinematographer Karl Struss and shot through with moral ambiguity, The Story of Temple Drake is a harrowing vision of sin and salvation that boasts an astonishing lead performance from the fiery Hopkins, whose passage through the stations of terror, trauma, and redemption is a true tour de force of screen acting. BLU RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • High definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • New program featuring a conversation between cinematographer John Bailey and Matt Severson, director of the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, about the film’s visual style, along with archival materials relating to its production • New program with critic Imogen Sara Smith about the complexity of the film and its central performance by Miriam Hopkins • New interview with critic Mick LaSalle about the film, censorship, and the Production Code • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien