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It's Sensational!
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
David BrianJohn Gavin Stevens
Claude Jarman Jr.Chick Mallison
Juano HernándezLucas Beauchamp
Porter HallNub Gowrie
Elizabeth PattersonMiss Eunice Habersham
Charles KemperCrawford Gowrie
Will GeerSheriff Hampton
David ClarkeVinson Gowrie
Elzie EmanuelAleck
Lela BlissMrs. Mallison
Harry HaydenMr. Mallison
Harry AntrimMr. TubbsExplore the crew
- Director
- Clarence Brown
- Producer
- Clarence Brown
- Original Music Composer
- Adolph Deutsch
- Director of Photography
- Robert Surtees
- Editor
- Robert Kern
- Screenplay
- Ben Maddow