41 reviews
Drama/Crime
1h 27m
1949
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,...

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.
- DirectorClarence Brown
- Release22 November 1949
- Genre
- Duration1h 27m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate41 reviews
- Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast

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

Tommy Bond
Minor Role (uncredited)

James Kirkwood
Convict (uncredited)

Dan White
Will Legate (uncredited)
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