“Intruder in the Dust” (1949) / Z-View
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Director: Clarence Brown
Screenplay: Ben Maddow; based on INTRUDER IN THE DUST by William Faulkner
Stars: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Kemper, David Clarke, David Clarke, Elzie Emanuel, Lela Bliss and Will Geer.
Tagline: None.
The Plot…
In the 1940s in a small Southern town, Lucas Beauchamp, a man of color, is falsely arrested for the murder of a white man. It will be up to a teenage boy, his lawyer uncle and an old woman to find the true killer before a lynch mob loses control.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
The film was shot on location in Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner, who wrote the source novel grew up in Oxford.
William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for literature for his novel INTRUDER IN THE DUST.
Intruder in the Dust (1949) rates 3 of 5 stars.