an unjustly neglect classic and intruder in the dust be one of the great film of the 1940 which have unfortunately slip into obscurity . base on a story by william faulker and and shot in his hometown of oxford and mississippi and intruder tell the story of lucas beauchamp ( play with great dignity by juano hernandez ) and a black man unjustly accuse of the murder of a local white man and and a white boy ( claude jarman and jr. ) who use this situation a an opportunity to pay a previous debt to beauchamp . terrific act and especially by two great character actor and porter hall ( a the dead man father ) and elizabeth patterson ( best know a mrs. trumbull on i love lucy ) a an old woman willing to stand against the townspeople to see that right be do . this straightforward and tense and sincere study of racial bigotry deserve to be see more .