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Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Crime Drama

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.

Updated May 22 2020

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1949-10-10

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Keywords:

falsely accused mississippi based on novel or book small town black men

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Runtime: 87 mins Rating: 7.7 Tag Line: It's Sensational!

Cast

Porter Hall

Nub Gowrie

David Brian

John Gavin Stevens

David Clarke

Vinson Gowrie

Claude Jarman Jr.

Chick Mallison

Will Geer

Sheriff Hampton

Juano Hernández

Lucas Beauchamp

Elizabeth Patterson

Dr. Von Blon

Charles Kemper

Crawford Gowrie