Is Intruder in the Dust sad?

Somewhat. More sad than 70% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Intruder in the Dust scary?

Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Intruder in the Dust violent?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Intruder in the Dust easy watching?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does Intruder in the Dust end with hope?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Intruder in the Dust

Name: Intruder in the Dust
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1949
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernández, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson

It's Sensational!

Directed by Clarence Brown

Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

194987 min7.3 / 10

A morally urgent courtroom drama set in 1940s Mississippi that confronts racial injustice and mob violence through the defense of a falsely accused Black man.

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.

Clusters

Complicity Under Pressure Soldiers Facing Wartime Hardship Realistic Injustice Dramas Loyalty Under Pressure Urban and Small-Town Settings

Genres

Drama Crime Mystery

Keywords

Small Town Based On Novel Or Book Mississippi River Falsely Accused

Questions people ask

Is Intruder in the Dust sad? Somewhat. More sad than 70% of films.
Is Intruder in the Dust scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.
Is Intruder in the Dust violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is Intruder in the Dust easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Does Intruder in the Dust end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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