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Intruder in the Dust (1949) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown.

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"Intruder in the Dust" breaks new ground and stars David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., and Juano Hernandez

By Stephen Reginald on Mar 26, 2023 From Classic Movie Man

"Intruder in the Dust" breaks new ground and stars David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., and Juano Hernandez Intruder in the Dust (1949) was an American crime drama directed by Clarence Brown and starring David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., and Juano Hernandez. The supporting cast includes Elizabeth Patt... Read full article

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Intruder in the Dust Quotes:

Miss Eunice Habersham: [Cooly to Crawford Gowrie as he stands menacingly in the entrance to the jail with a can of gasoline] Please stay out of my light so I can thread my needle.
John Gavin Stevens: [to Lucas] You don't want justice; you want mercy.
Crawford Gowrie: Miss Haversham, I'm not gonna touch yuh now. You're an old lady, but you're in the wrong. You're fightin' the whole county, but you're gonna get tired, and when yuh do get tired, we're gonna go in.
Miss Eunice Habersham: [Unflustered] I'm goin' for eighty, and I'm not tired yet.
John Gavin Stevens: Mr. Hampton is right Miss Eunice, and so are you. They'd pass even Will Legate sooner or later when there's enough of them.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] But there's one thing that would stop them. Long enough anyhow.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] And that's somebody without a gun.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] A Lady. A White Lady.
Sheriff Hampton: [to Uncle John] You're the lawyer. You're the talker.
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Intruder in the Dust Facts
William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, the year after "Intruder in the Dust" was published and the same year the film was released.
Lucas Beauchamp and his wife appeared in an earlier Faulkner story in the collection "Go Down, Moses"
Will Geer and Juano Hernandez also co-starred in The Reivers, which was also based on a novel by William Faulkner.
The film was shot on location in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.
MGM paid Faulkner $50,000 for the film rights to his 1948 novel.
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