Intruder in the Dust
movie
It's Sensational!
Released November 22, 1949
Overview
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.
Cast
David Brian
as
John Gavin Stevens
Claude Jarman Jr.
as
Chick Mallison
Juano Hernández
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
Crew
Clarence Brown
as
Director
Clarence Brown
as
Producer
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Adolph Deutsch
as
Original Music Composer
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Robert Kern
as
Editor
Robert Surtees
as
Director of Photography
Randall Duell
as
Art Direction
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Jay Marchant
as
Production Manager
William Faulkner
as
Novel
Cedric Gibbons
as
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
as
Set Decoration
Ben Maddow
as
Screenplay
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Jack Dawn
as
Makeup Artist