1998, 146 minutes, Rated MA
It seemed like just another suicide. But what made Dr Sarah Blakeney shiver was the scold's bridle strapped to the old woman's face. In the Middle Ages the metal bridle has been an instrument of torture and restraint - curbing the tongues of nagging women. Martha Gillespie had been a strong-minded, some would say ruthless woman. So what did it point to now? Remorse, self-hatred or... murder?
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