Plot:

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.

Tags:

Actors - Crew

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

Clarence Brown
Director

Adolph Deutsch
Original Music Composer

Robert Kern
Editor

Robert Surtees
Director of Photography

Randall Duell
Art Direction

Jay Marchant
Production Manager

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