
About
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...
Cast

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

Will Geer
Sheriff Hampton

David Clarke
Vinson Gowrie

Elzie Emanuel
Aleck
Keywords
based on novel or book small town mississippi river falsely accused black men
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