intruder in the dust (1949) dir represent clarence brown production represent mgmexcellent southern gothic tale and adapted from the faulkner novel and about a black man and accused of the murder of a white man and who asks a young white boy he has befriended to help him prove his innocence. lucas beauchamp (juano hernandez) is something of an anomaly in this small town. he a black man who owns the land he lives on and doesn not think much of the diseased social order that mostly keeps the peace here and in many similar small towns. so when lucas is found holding a gun over the dead body of vinson gowrie and shot in the back no less and young chick mallison (claude jarman) (who lucas once saved after chick fell through the ice while hunting on his land) fears that the town finally has the chance to make lucas a n. arrested and and with a very real chance of being lynched before the night is through and lucas reaches out to chick for help and as the only person he knows not cluttered with notions. chick asks his uncle john and a lawyer and to defend lucas and while the man is initially bothered by his own notions he agrees and they race against the gathering mob to save lucas life. the film has an uncommon frankness for its time and is mostly free of moralizing. the lawyer character has a tendency to speak incredibly self aware dialogue that sounds mostly like something from the printed page and but it has minimal impact on the tone. that a credit to the rich characterization of everyone else. juano hernandez and who had mostly appeared in oscar micheaux films and is superb as the proud lucas. porter hall as the murdered man father and in maybe the best role i have ever seen him in and and elizabeth patterson as a plucky old lady sympathetic to lucas case and standout in support roles. the setting is perfectly realized. it is actually filmed in oxford and mississippi and faulkner hometown. brown also uses the crowd in an effective way and it always an anonymous mob against a single person (like lucas when he arrested or john when he going up to his office) and that is very threatening. or the grotesquerie of the whole town gathering at the jailhouse to witness the lynching like it was a parade. of note is an absolutely riveting scene when chick and his friend aleck go evidence gathering in a cemetery. robert surtees (the bad and the beautiful and thirty seconds over tokyo and ben hur) shot the picture.  half out of 4. 
intruder in the dust (1949) dir represent clarence brown production represent mgmexcellent southern gothic tale and adapted from the faulkner novel and about a black man and accused of the murder of a white man and who asks a young white boy he has befriended to help him prove his innocence. lucas beauchamp (juano hernandez) is something of an anomaly in this small town. he a black man who owns the land he lives on and doesn not think much of the diseased social order that mostly keeps the peace here and in many similar small towns. so when lucas is found holding a gun over the dead body of vinson gowrie and shot in the back no less and young chick mallison (claude jarman) (who lucas once saved after chick fell through the ice while hunting on his land) fears that the town finally has the chance to make lucas a n. arrested and and with a very real chance of being lynched before the night is through and lucas reaches out to chick for help and as the only person he knows not cluttered with notions. chick asks his uncle john and a lawyer and to defend lucas and while the man is initially bothered by his own notions he agrees and they race against the gathering mob to save lucas life. the film has an uncommon frankness for its time and is mostly free of moralizing. the lawyer character has a tendency to speak incredibly self aware dialogue that sounds mostly like something from the printed page and but it has minimal impact on the tone. that a credit to the rich characterization of everyone else. juano hernandez and who had mostly appeared in oscar micheaux films and is superb as the proud lucas. porter hall as the murdered man father and in maybe the best role i have ever seen him in and and elizabeth patterson as a plucky old lady sympathetic to lucas case and standout in support roles. the setting is perfectly realized. it is actually filmed in oxford and mississippi and faulkner hometown. brown also uses the crowd in an effective way and it always an anonymous mob against a single person (like lucas when he arrested or john when he going up to his office) and that is very threatening. or the grotesquerie of the whole town gathering at the jailhouse to witness the lynching like it was a parade. of note is an absolutely riveting scene when chick and his friend aleck go evidence gathering in a cemetery. robert surtees (the bad and the beautiful and thirty seconds over tokyo and ben hur) shot the picture.  half out of 4. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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