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Intruder in the Dust (1949)
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22 November 1950 (France)
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Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites...
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
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A neglected classic
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | David Brian | ... | John Gavin Stevens |
| Claude Jarman Jr. | ... | Chick Mallison |
| Juano Hernandez | ... | Lucas Beauchamp |
| Porter Hall | ... | Nub Gowrie |
| Elizabeth Patterson | ... | Miss Eunice Habersham |
| Charles Kemper | ... | Crawford Gowrie |
| Will Geer | ... | Sheriff Hampton |
 | David Clarke | ... | Vinson Gowrie |
| Elzie Emanuel | ... | Aleck |
| Lela Bliss | ... | Mrs. Mallison |
| Harry Hayden | ... | Mr. Mallison |
| Harry Antrim | ... | Mr. Tubbs |
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87 min
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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John Gavin Stevens:
Mr. Hampton is right Miss Eunice, and so are you. They'd pass even Will Legate sooner or later when there's enough of them.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] But there's one thing that would stop them. Long enough anyhow.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] And that's somebody without a gun.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] A Lady. A White Lady.
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John Gavin Stevens: [pause] But there's one thing that would stop them. Long enough anyhow.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] And that's somebody without a gun.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] A Lady. A White Lady.
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Featured in Some of the Best (1949)
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An unjustly neglected classic, "Intruder in the Dust" is one of the great films of the 1940's which has unfortunately slipped into obscurity. Based on a story by William Faulker, and shot in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, "Intruder" tells the story of Lucas Beauchamp (played with great dignity by Juano Hernandez), a black man unjustly accused of the murder of a local white man, and a white boy (Claude Jarman, Jr.) who uses this situation as an opportunity to pay a previous debt to Beauchamp. Terrific acting, especially by two great character actors, Porter Hall (as the dead man's father) and Elizabeth Patterson (best known as Mrs. Trumbull on "I Love Lucy") as an old woman willing to stand against the townspeople to see that right is done. This straightforward, tense and sincere study of racial bigotry deserves to be seen more.