Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
Drama
87 minutes
Directed by Clarence Brown
Cast:
Claude Jarman Jr. as Chick Mallison
Juano Hernandez as Lucas Beauchamp
Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Eunice Habersham
Charles Kemper as Crawford Gowrie
David Clarke as Vinson Gowrie
Elzie Emanuel as Aleck
Lela Bliss as Mrs. Mallison
Harry Hayden as Mr. Mallison
Harry Antrim as Mr. Tubbs
The film is set in the 1940s in Mississippi, where Lucas Beauchamp, a black man who was known not to cater to whites, is discovered with a gun and a dead white man next to him. He is immediately thrown into jail, even though Beauchamp maintains he had nothing to do with the murder. Beauchamp requests the help of lawyer Gavin Stevens, but Stevens does not believe in him. He changes his mind when a young boy Beauchamp had helped in the past comes to him telling him to defend him, for a gang wants to lynch him. The boy believes Beauchamp is innocent.
