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Intruder in the Dust (1949)

NR ★ 7.4/10 87 min Drama, Crime, Mystery United States English
Novel: William Faulkner
Screenplay by: Ben Maddow
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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.

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David Brian
David Brian John Gavin Stevens
Claude Jarman Jr.
Claude Jarman Jr. Chick Mallison
Juano Hernández
Juano Hernández Lucas Beauchamp
Porter Hall
Porter Hall Nub Gowrie
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson Miss Eunice Habersham
Charles Kemper
Charles Kemper Crawford Gowrie
Will Geer
Will Geer Sheriff Hampton
David Clarke
David Clarke Vinson Gowrie

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