Intruder in the Dust
In a small Mississippi town, a teenage boy, his lawyer uncle and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
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"Juano Hernandez plays Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer with a ten acre spread, who is facing a lynching at the hands of hundreds of poor and destitute looking whites who have come into the small Southern town by the busload, as he is locked away in the town's aging jail. His only hope is to prove his innocence of the crime of murdering one of the Gowrie boys, a family klan of five sons led by a father who lost an arm a long time ago as well as his wife. The back story of Lucas, the Gowries, and the assembling of whites who look more the part of poverty than any other film I've ever se..."
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Because segregation was still so commonplace in Oxford, MS, cast members Juano Hernandez and Elzie Emanuel were not allowed to stay in the same hotel as their white co-stars; they were boarded in a private home instead.
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In a small Mississippi town, a teenage boy, his lawyer uncle and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.