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Intruder in the Dust

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Intruder in the Dust
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NR,1hr 27min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1949
Director:
Clarence Brown
Starring:
David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr., Juano Hernandez  ...more
Synopsis: 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. 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). Juano Hernandez plays an African-American landowner who is arrested on a murder charge. Resentful of Hernandez' industriousness, the white townsfolk are eager to see him hang. David Brian, the attorney ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
Hollywood began to develop a conscience about racism in the 1940s, when our World War II fight against fascism began to raise consciousness about prejudice at home. As the decade drew to a close, 1949 brought four major American films that dealt with racial prejudice; while Pinky and Home of the Brave received more attention in the press and at the box office, and Lost Boundaries developed something ... Full Review
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David Brian
John Gavin Stevens
Claude Jarman, Jr.
Chick Mallison
Juano Hernandez
Lucas Beauchamp
Charles Kemper
Crawford Gowrie
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