Intruder in the Dust (1949)
It's Sensational!
87 min
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
- Release date
- November 22, 1949
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Adolph Deutsch
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Cast
- David Brian as John Gavin Stevens
- Claude Jarman Jr. as Chick Mallison
- Juano Hernandez as Lucas Beauchamp
- Porter Hall as Nub Gowrie
- Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Eunice Habersham
- Charles Kemper as Crawford Gowrie
- Will Geer as Sheriff Hampton
- David Clarke as Vinson Gowrie
- Elzie Emanuel as Aleck
- Lela Bliss as Mrs. Mallison
- Harry Hayden as Mr. Mallison
- Harry Antrim as Mr. Tubbs
- Tommy Bond as Minor Role (uncredited)
- James Kirkwood as Convict (uncredited)
Crew
- Clarence Brown · Director
- Ben Maddow · Writer
- William Faulkner · Writer
- Clarence Brown · Producer
- Adolph Deutsch · Composer
- Robert Surtees · Cinematographer
- Robert Kern · Editor