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Actors: David Brian, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Kemper
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Intruder In The Dust |
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With a screenplay by Ben Maddow based off a William Faulkner novel, Intruder In The Dust stars Claude Jarman Jr. as Chick Mallison, a young boy in rural Mississippi. The movie opens up with the locals watching as the sheriff drives into the town with suspected murder Lucas Beauchamp, a black man thought to have killed a white man. But as Beauchamp is taken into the jail he yells out to Chick Mallison to get the lawyer John Gavin Stevens (David Brian). Chick goes home for supper and pleads with John to take the case. It's here the movie goes into a long backstory on how Chick met Lucas after falling into a creek while hunting. Stevens agrees to talk to Lucas and he and Chick go to see Lucas. But Stevens preconcieved notions get in the way and Lucas feels like he can't trust him. He does tell Chick what happened. Chick then goes to the Gowrie grave in an attempt to find the truth only to find an empty grave. Now the sheriff and Stevens have proof that Lucas is innocent, but there is still an angry mob of townsfolk who want to lynch and burn the black man. In an ironic twist, Chick, Stevens, and the local sheriff set a trap to find the real killer who turns out to be a white man, which snuffs out the rage of the angry townsfolk.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Intruder In The Dust |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- rrrrrracism!!!!!
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- falsely accused clearing name
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- gang
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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