Intruder in the Dust

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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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Creators

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Clarence Brown

director

William Faulkner

writer

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Ben Maddow

writer

Cast

David Brian actor

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Claude Jarman, Jr. actor

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Juano Hernández actor

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Porter Hall actor

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Elizabeth Patterson actor Charles Kemper actor Will Geer actor

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David Clarke actor

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Elzie Emanuel actor

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Lela Bliss actor

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Harry Hayden actor Harry Antrim actor

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Homer Arnold actor

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John E. Avent actor

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Joyce Ann Baron actor Tommy Bond actor

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Jack Bronfield actor

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Allison Busby actor

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Alberta Dishmon actor

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Harold Gean actor