2nd Annual Floyd Webb Birthday Screening INTRUDER IN THE DUST, Thur, July 3, 7pm
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Intruder in the Dust
Thurs, July 3rd, 7pm, Adm: $6
Studio Movie Grill Chatham 14 Theaters
210 W 87th St
Come to my 2nd Annual Birthday Party Film, where I make a totally personal choice of a film I love or is one of my guilty pleasures. With all the hoopla lately, I figured I would pander the the present zeitgeist and show something kinda serious and extremely rare on the big screen.
July 5th is my birthday but we will celebrate at our July screening of INTRUDER IN THE DUST at Black World Cinema’s July 3rd screening!!
Juano Hernandez in in the lead and poppa don’t take no mess. Juano Hernandez, was Puerto Rican born in 1896, made his movie debut in 1932 playing a Cuban in “The Girl from Chicago,” a Oscar Micheaux’s film for African American audiences. In 1949 he received critical acclaim – and a Golden Globe nomination as best newcomer – for his role as Lucas Beauchamp in “Intruder in the Dust.”
So come on out and have a ball with a great film, eat some popcorn, talk some smack in “the year that I stop counting!”
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 crime drama film produced and directed by Clarence Brown and starring Juano Hernandez, David Brian and Claude Jarman, Jr. The film is based on the novel Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner. The film closely follows the plot line of the Faulkner novel. It tells the story of Lucas Beauchamp, a poor black Mississippi farmer unjustly accused of the murder of a white man. The film earned Juano Hernández a Golden Globe nomination for “New Star of the Year”.[3] The film was listed as one of the ten best of the year by the New York Times. William Faulkner said of the film: “I’m not much of a moviegoer, but I did see that one. I thought it was a fine job. That Juano Hernández is a fine actor–and man, too.”[4] More than 50 years later, in 2001, film historian Donald Bogle wrote that Intruder in the Dust broke new ground in the cinematic portrayal of blacks, and Hernández’s “performance and extraordinary presence still rank above that of almost any other black actor to appear in an American movie.” [5]