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Release Date:
November 22, 1949
Original Title:
Intruder in the Dust
Alternate Titles:
Han matado un hombre blanco
Genres:
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 87
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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Art Direction:
Randall Duell
Cedric Gibbons
Director:
Clarence Brown
Director of Photography:
Robert Surtees
Editor:
Robert Kern
Novel:
William Faulkner
Original Music Composer:
Adolph Deutsch
Producer:
Clarence Brown
Production Manager:
Jay Marchant
Screenplay:
Ben Maddow
Set Decoration:
Edwin B. Willis
Ralph S. Hurst
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