Intruder in the Dust is a 1948 novel by William Faulkner. The story is based on the trial of Lucas Beaucamp, a black farmer for murder of a white man. He is cleared due to the efforts of black and white teenagers and a spinster from a long-established southern family. It was written as Faulkner's response as a Southern writer to the racial problems facing the South. In his Selected Letters, Faulkner wrote: the premise being that the white people in the south, before the North or the Govt. or anybody else owe and must pay a responsiblity to the negro. The novel was turned into a MGM film directed by Clarence Brown in 1949 after MGM paid film rights of $50,000 to Faulkner. The film was shot in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.
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