Sanctuary

In Tony Richardson’s Sanctuary (1961; based on two stories of William Faulkner), Stevens’s Shane (1953), and Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985), for example, a figure sacrifices himself (Sanctuary) or joins the side of good in a fight between good and evil (Shane, Pale Rider).

…of sexual assault, and in Sanctuary (1961), which was based in part on two Faulkner novels. In 1960 she starred with Montgomery Clift in Kazan’s Wild River (1960), portraying an uneducated widowed mother. Remick earned particular praise for her performance as a housewife who becomes an alcoholic in Days of…