The intruder

par Philippe - 17 Septembre 2019, 08:35

Drama, directed by : Roger Corman, writing credits : Charles Beaumont, produced by : Roger Carman and Gene Corman, music : Herman Stein, cinematography : Taylor Byars, cast : William Shatner, Franck Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Leo Gordon, Charles Barnes, Charles Beumont, Katherine Smith, George Clayton Johnston, ..., 1962, 82 mn.

The film director Roger Corman has specialized himself in horror movies with low budget adapted from Egar Allan Poe novels and also in movies about motorbike drivers few years before "Easy Rider" (1969). He also helps Jack Nicholson for becoming actor but "The intruder" stays as something special in his filmography. In 1959 the novelist and screenwriter Charles Beaumont writes "The intruder" in which he discribes a small city from the Southern of the United - States where an unknown man wearing a white suit introducing himself as a social reformer arrives. He sows hatery among the people specially against African - Americans and Jews and let the situation degenerate. The novelist has inspired himself with the deepsouth crowd hatery reactions against the Supreme Court decision "Brown vs Board of Education" May 17th 1954 who let the African - Americans children go to the same schools as Whites. Corman adapts the novel on screen and gives the actor William Shatner the future captain Kirk in the TV serie Star Trek his potent part but he should fight against some difficulties for directing his movie. Any studios or independant companies wanted to give him the money because they were frightened by the topic. Corman mortgaged his own house and sollicitated the help of his brother Gene for puting together the 80.000 dollars film budget. For being the most realistic he can Corman shoot in several Missouri state cities without saying anything to the people and when they understand the antiracist meaning of the film they will go protesting to the production. Following the Elia Kazan movie "A face in the crowd" (1957) Roger Corman asks hismself why people in United States fall into racism at a time where JFK leads the country and two years before the "Civil Right Acts" (1964).

The intruder (William Shatner) arouses hatery among the people

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