Intruder in the Dust

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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  David Brian

  John Gavin Stevens
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  Claude Jarman Jr.

  Chick Mallison
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  Juano Hernández

  Lucas Beauchamp
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  Porter Hall

  Nub Gowrie
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  Elizabeth Patterson

  Miss Eunice Habersham
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  Charles Kemper

  Crawford Gowrie
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  Will Geer

  Sheriff Hampton
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  David Clarke

  Vinson Gowrie
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  Elzie Emanuel

  Aleck
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  Lela Bliss

  Mrs. Mallison