August 29, 3pm, Depicting Black Militancy: Intruder in the Dust (1949)
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Depicting Black Militancy
August 29, 3pm, 2021
Intruder in the Dust (1949) Clarence Brown, 1h 27m
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Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is a strong, proud African-American man accused of murder in 1940s small-town Mississippi. As the town’s white residents prepare to lynch him, a teenage boy named Chick (Claude Jarman Jr.) whom Beauchamp had once saved from drowning becomes convinced of the man’s innocence, and races to discover the identity of the real murderer before it’s too late. This film, adapted from William Faulkner’s 1948 novel, was made on location in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.