Southern Movie 2: “Intruder in the Dust” (1949)

The Southern Movies series explores images of the South in modern films as well as how those images affect American perspectives on the region. The 1949 movie adaptation of William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust offers a different kind of race-relations narrative. In the story, we meet a white teenage boy named Chick Mallison who has been trying to repay the kindness of a black man – a landowner, which is a rarity in his day – who took care of Chick when he fell in a cold creek. The man, Lucas Beauchamp, is… Read more Southern Movie 2: “Intruder in the Dust” (1949) →