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 Bea...
Top Cast
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David BrianJohn Gavin Stevens
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Claude Jarman Jr.Chick Mallison
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Juano HernándezLucas Beauchamp
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Porter HallNub Gowrie
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Elizabeth PattersonMiss Eunice Habersham
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Charles KemperCrawford Gowrie
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Will GeerSheriff Hampton
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David ClarkeVinson Gowrie
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Elzie EmanuelAleck
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Lela BlissMrs. Mallison
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Harry HaydenMr. Mallison
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Harry AntrimMr. Tubbs
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Homer ArnoldMinor Role (uncredited)
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John E. AventMinor Role (uncredited)
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Joyce Ann BaronChild with Yo-Yo (uncredited)
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Tommy BondMinor Role (uncredited)
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Jack BronfieldMan in Crowd (uncredited)
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Allison BusbyCustomer (uncredited)
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Alberta DishmonParalee (uncredited)
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Harold GeanPatron (uncredited)
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W.P. HaleyCustomer (uncredited)
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Ann HartsfieldGirl (uncredited)
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George T. HemphillCrowd Member (voice) (uncredited)