Intruder in the Dust stands out among other films of its period with its refusal to stoop to any form of condescension towards its black characters or to rationalize the behavior of the bigots. The hostile atmosphere reaches a fever pitch, but justice is ultimately served. His job is complicated by the lynch-mob mentality fomented by the dead man's brother (Charles Kemper) and Hernandez' refusal to reveal the name of the man he suspects as the killer. 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. David Brian, the attorney uncle of a young white boy (Claude Jarman Jr.) who has befriended Hernandez, agrees to take the accused man's case. In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge. Resentful of Hernandez' industriousness, the white townsfolk are eager to see him hang. Taking place in Mississippi, it revolves around an African American farmer accused of murdering a Caucasian man. Juano Hernandez plays an African-American landowner who is arrested on a murder charge. Intruder in the Dust is a 1948 crime novel written by American author William Faulkner.
Based on a novel by William Faulkner, the film takes place in a small Mississippi town (it was filmed on location in and around Oxford, MS). Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner followed the adventures of Chick Malison and his companions as they proved the innocence of Lucas Beauchamp. When a local man is murdered, an African American is the prime suspect. Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle-a cycle that would come to an abrupt end in the politically paranoid 1950s. Intruder in the Dust (1949) (151) 1 h 18+ A small town in Mississipi, 1949. David Brian, the attorney uncle of a young. Juano Hernandez plays an African-American landowner who is arrested on a murder charge. Based on a novel by William Faulkner, the film takes place in a small Mississippi town (it was filmed on location in and around Oxford, MS). William Faulkner demonstrates that the threat of violence. Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle-a cycle that would come to an abrupt end in the politically paranoid 1950s. Intruder in the Dust is a novel about racial injustice and the larger role of race relations in a small town in Mississippi in the 1940s.
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