Intruder in the Dust

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

David Brian

John Gavin Stevens

Age : 78 | Popularity : 32%

Claude Jarman Jr.

Chick Mallison

Age : N/A | Popularity : 16%

Juano Hernández

Lucas Beauchamp

Age : 73 | Popularity : 24%

Porter Hall

Nub Gowrie

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Elizabeth Patterson

Miss Eunice Habersham

Age : N/A | Popularity : 15%

Charles Kemper

Crawford Gowrie

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Will Geer

Sheriff Hampton

Age : 76 | Popularity : 55%

David Clarke

Vinson Gowrie

Age : 95 | Popularity : 11%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Clarence Brown
Writing	Novel	William Faulkner
	Writer	Ben Maddow
Production	Producer	Clarence Brown
	Production Manager	Jay Marchant
Sound	Original Music Composer	Adolph Deutsch
Camera	Director of Photography	Robert Surtees
Editing	Editor	Robert Kern
Art	Art Direction	Randall Duell Cedric Gibbons
	Set Decoration	Ralph S. Hurst Edwin B. Willis
Department	Role	Name

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