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Intruder in the Dust
Directed by
Clarence Brown
Passed
1949
87m
Drama
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Crime
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7.6
93%
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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.
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Cast of Intruder in the Dust
David Brian
John Gavin Stevens
Claude Jarman Jr.
Chick Mallison
Juano Hernández
Lucas Beauchamp
Porter Hall
Nub Gowrie
Elizabeth Patterson
Miss Eunice Habersham
Charles Kemper
Crawford Gowrie
Will Geer
Sheriff Hampton
David Clarke
Vinson Gowrie
Elzie Emanuel
Aleck
Lela Bliss
Mrs. Mallison
Harry Hayden
Mr. Mallison
Harry Antrim
Mr. Tubbs
Homer Arnold
Minor Role (uncredited)
John E. Avent
Minor Role (uncredited)
Joyce Ann Baron
Child with Yo-Yo (uncredited)
Tommy Bond
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jack Bronfield
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Allison Busby
Customer (uncredited)
Alberta Dishmon
Paralee (uncredited)
Harold Gean
Patron (uncredited)
W.P. Haley
Customer (uncredited)
Ann Hartsfield
Girl (uncredited)
George T. Hemphill
Crowd Member (voice) (uncredited)
Ben Hilbun
Attendant (uncredited)
Noel Hodge
Crowd Member (voice) (uncredited)
E.L. Hooker
Minor Role (uncredited)
Eylla Jacobs
Woman (uncredited)
John M. Keel
Patron (uncredited)
W.G. Kimmons
Deputy (uncredited)
James Kirkwood
Convict (uncredited)
Will Lewis
Minor Role (uncredited)
Ephraim Lowe
Gowrie Twin (uncredited)
Julia S. Marshbanks
Molly Beauchamp (uncredited)
Dewey McCoy
Crowd Member (voice) (uncredited)
John Morgan
Convict (uncredited)
Jack Odom
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Freddie B. Patton
Barber (uncredited)
Mike Riva
Crowd Member (uncredited)
Eugene Roper
Fraser's Son (uncredited)
C.E. Slough
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Guy Turnbow Sr.
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Dan White
Will Legate (uncredited)
R.X. Williams
Mr. Lilley (uncredited)
E.H. Windham
Minor Role (uncredited)
Howard Winters
Minor Role (uncredited)
Robert Lee Young
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Edmund Lowe
Gowrie Twin (uncredited)
Clarence Brown
Director / Producer
William Faulkner
Writer
Ben Maddow
Writer
Intruder in the Dust Ratings & Reviews
John Moss
September 2, 2025
Fantastic movie that's just as relevant today as when it was first released in 1949. It's about an innocent, dignified black man wrongly accused of murder in the Jim Crow South, facing mob "justice". The way the crowd became ravenous. Just assuming he was guilty based on the color of his skin was shocking, but it reminded me of our current times, as people get pulled off the street and disbelieved, and deported without process. History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme in 2025.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
As producer and director, Brown has maintained brilliant balance between the film's melodrama and its powerful social message.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
Intruder in the Dust is not only a great social document but an engrossing, thrilling story of courage and passion.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
While we may not like what we see on the screen, we must admit that Brown's intention in capturing the Faulkner yarn on film was a meritorious one.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
Grimly courageous.
The Nation
William Poster
[It's hard] reconciling Faulkner's beliefs with the tenets of Hollywood liberalism. Result: there is some very smooth broken-field running around all the implications that get in the way, but many of the dramatic potentialities of the plot are lost.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Harold V. Cohen
It is a movie that earns a distant respect and admiration, and stays on top of the skin.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
Good performances by Juano Hernandez, Claude Jarman Jr., David Brian and others, and superbly directed by Clarence Brown.
Kansas City Star
Carl E. Cooper
Intruder in the Dust belongs among the Hollywood classics of this era.
San Francisco Examiner
Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
I have never seen a film done with more forthright purpose, with less emotional bias or with greater understanding than this story, which deals with bigotry.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
Director Clarence Brown made the most of the authentic backgrounds and the townspeople as a supporting cast, and the film as a whole is engrossing and unusual.
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
All the acting and action is direct and powerful. There is a normal quality to everything that makes the story seem real and true.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Gita Packer
Completely believable.
Hartford Courant
M. Oakley Christoph
Too serious and deep for me.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Louis Sheaffer
It's true that this M-G-M work is not entirely successful, for it has several basic flaws, but it also has out-of-the-ordinary qualities, quite a few passages that are powerfully affecting and a blunt, though sensitive style all its own.
Washington Star
Jay Carmody
Intruder in the Dust is full of the kind of performances that could be called blazing. The most affecting of these is the almost ominously quiet, honest portrait of Lucas by Actor Hernandez.
Modern Screen
Christopher Kane
There's excitement, suspense, and marvelous acting from everybody involved.
Harrison's Reports
P.S. Harrison
It is not a pleasant entertainment, but it holds one fascinated throughout because of the superb handling of the theme by producer-director Clarence Brown, and the fine acting by the entire cast.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
The stanch and magnificent integrity that Mr. Hernandez displays in his carriage, his manner and expression, with never a flinch in his great self-command, is the bulwark of all the deep compassion and ironic comment in this film.
Variety
William Brogdon
Guidance of the story keeps it alive with anticipation up to the climax.
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