The Intruder (Special Edition)
by Roger Corman
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Actor: Beverly Lunsford, Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon, Robert Emhardt, William ShatnerDirector: Roger Corman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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Movie Review: The Intruder
Summary: 3 Stars
Adam Cramer arrives in a southern town with one purpose in mind, to gather the white residents to rally against forced school integration. The white residents seem resigned to the fact that 10 Black students will be attending the local school, but Cramer is determined to change that. Once he starts to stir things up, his efforts snowball and the viewer can see how this will likely end.
Watching this film reminds me of how much things have changed and how much they've remained the same. I must admit, I chuckled when 'Captain Kirk' and 'Katherine Chancellor' were having an intimate moment. I found this to be one of those films that did a decent job of exploring racism in the south, but the ending is highly unbelievable.
Summary of The Intruder (Special Edition)
Arriving in a sleepy Southern town on the eve of integration, slick charismatic Adam Cramer (William Shatner) is an ominous influence, inciting its white citizens into a racial fervor, and plunging the once quiet community into a state of chaos.The Intruder is the greatest irony of Roger Corman's film career. In 1962, after cranking out dozens of exploitation quickies and gaining recognition for his widescreen Edgar Allen Poe series, he put up his own resources to produce a serious work of drama on the explosive issue of racism and integration. Shot on location in a small town in Missouri, where he and his crew faced bigotry first hand when the locals found out exactly what they were actually shooting, the film went on to win rave reviews and film festival prizes and became Corman's first film to lose money. William Shatner delivers the most controlled performance of his career as Adam Cramer, a cool, charismatic white supremacist who rouses the smoldering white citizens of a small Southern town to mob violence on the eve of school integration. As the crowd slips from his control and events escalate, Cramer's true intentions are laid bare, and as he flails about in desperation Shatner's performance slides into near hysteria. There are few weak performances in the smaller roles and the film at times slips into didactic speeches, but Corman's strong direction drives home the film in powerful scenes and striking imagery: Cramer's incendiary speech on the courthouse steps, the deathly quiet KKK ride through the black part of town. By the climax Corman understands that controlled silence is even more terrifying than a mob's thundering cries. --Sean Axmaker
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