Intruder in the Dust is the latest of the four fine screen studies of race problems In this country, and it is in some ways the best.

| Sep 28, 2022

In this difficult role Juano Hernandez turns in a sensitive and restrained performance.

| Aug 17, 2022

The great significance of the definition of Lucas Beauchamp's role in Intruder in the Dust is that it makes explicit the nature of Hollywood's changed attitude.

| Jan 25, 2022

As producer and director, Brown has maintained brilliant balance between the film's melodrama and its powerful social message.

| Jan 29, 2021

Intruder in the Dust is not only a great social document but an engrossing, thrilling story of courage and passion.

| Jan 29, 2021

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2021

Grimly courageous.

| Jan 29, 2021

[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.

| Jan 29, 2021

It is a movie that earns a distant respect and admiration, and stays on top of the skin.

| Jan 29, 2021

Good performances by Juano Hernandez, Claude Jarman Jr., David Brian and others, and superbly directed by Clarence Brown.

| Jan 29, 2021

Intruder in the Dust belongs among the Hollywood classics of this era.

| Jan 29, 2021

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.

| Jan 29, 2021

Its great effectiveness lies less in its story than in, for instance, the picture it presents of the crowds gathering outside the gaol waiting for the dreadful, murderous show. The horror of this crowd is in its very casualness, its almost festive air.

| Jan 29, 2021

Intruder, beautifully directed by Clarence Brown from William Faulkner's novel, never makes the mistake of pushing propaganda under the noses of the audience; simply tells a moving story, and leaves the individual to draw his own' conclusions.

| Jan 29, 2021

Juano Hernandez, as the accused, however, takes the top honors in this excellent film.

| Jan 29, 2021

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.

| Jan 29, 2021

All the acting and action is direct and powerful. There is a normal quality to everything that makes the story seem real and true.

| Jan 29, 2021

Completely believable.

| Jan 29, 2021

Too serious and deep for me.

| Jan 29, 2021

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.

| Jan 29, 2021