Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Directed by

Clarence Brown

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Black man is wrongly accused of murder in a small Mississippi town. A young white boy and an elderly woman work to prove his innocence before a lynch mob acts.

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What happens

Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 crime drama film produced and directed by Clarence Brown and starring David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr. and Juano Hernandez. The film is based on the 1948 novel Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner, and was filmed in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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