Intruder in the Dust (1949): Where to Watch, Cast & Facts

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Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

Cast

David Brian as John Gavin Stevens; Claude Jarman Jr. as Chick Mallison; Juano Hernández as Lucas Beauchamp; Porter Hall as Nub Gowrie; Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Eunice Habersham; Charles Kemper as Crawford Gowrie; Will Geer as Sheriff Hampton; David Clarke as Vinson Gowrie

About Intruder in the Dust

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.

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