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Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Director: Clarence Brown
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
By far the best of the race prejudice cycle of the '40s, a subtle adaptation (by Ben Maddow) of William Faulkner's novel which goes out of its way to avoid the usual special pleading in dealing with Lucas Beauchamp (Hernandez), the elderly black facing a lynch mob when accused of shooting a white man in the back. Lucas is clearly innocent but also 'stubborn and insufferable', so scornful of whitey and his patronage that he refuses to stoop to defending himself; an arrogant sonofabitch so hard to like that when two lone citizens come forward in his defence (an old woman and a young boy), they do so against their wills, purely so that they can go on sleeping easy. An amazingly laid back conception for the period, echoed by Brown's calmly dispassionate direction and by the unobtrusively persuasive ambience (most of the film was shot in Faulkner's home town of Oxford, Mississippi).Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Clarence Brown
Producer: Clarence Brown
Cast: Claude Jarman Jr, David Brian, Juano Hernandez, Elizabeth Patterson, Porter Hall, Will Geer full cast
Duration: 86 mins
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