1949 • NR • 1h 27m
7.4/10
(38 users) 
Overview
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowin 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.
7.4/10
(38 users) Cast / Crew 
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) 
Clarence Brown Director Clarence Brown Producer 
Adolph Deutsch Original Music Composer Robert Kern Editor Robert Surtees Director of Photography Randall Duell Art Direction Jay Marchant Production Manager 
William Faulkner Novel 
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction Ralph S. Hurst Set Decoration 
Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration 
Ben Maddow Screenplay
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) Clarence Brown Director Clarence Brown Producer Adolph Deutsch Original Music Composer Robert Kern Editor Robert Surtees Director of Photography Randall Duell Art Direction Jay Marchant Production Manager William Faulkner Novel Cedric Gibbons Art Direction Ralph S. Hurst Set Decoration Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration Ben Maddow Screenplay 
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