Beverly Lunsford, Charles Barnes, Charles Beaumont, Frank Maxwell, George Clayton Johnson ...( see more  see more... ) , Jeanne Cooper , Leo Gordon , Robert Emhardt , William Shatner

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 ...( read more  read more... )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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PG-13, 83 min.

Directed by: Roger Corman

Release Date: May 14, 1962

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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2001

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  • October 26, 2007
    makes ya cringe to think this shit went on only 50 years ago. nice to see someone making a movie about it though and raising awareness. captain kirk was pretty unlikeable in this... and he couldn't beam out at the end either when it all went a bit pear shaped for him. looking at ...( read more)the people in this movie though... how can people be so dumb?
  • August 17, 2009
    A very strange movie. It perhaps was a movie about race but now seems more on the psychoanalysis of the main character, his populism and people who blindly follow him.
  • April 27, 2009
    a low budget racial examination done by Roger Corman.

    The tales of the shoot are almost as interesting as the film itself.

    Shatner, unfortunately, is such a ham in this. Even the part where he delivers his big speech, I was completely distracted by his odd robotic arm movements.
  • October 12, 2007
    wow, after watching the trailer, it's hard to believe he made this in the middle of a bunch of random edgar allen poe flicks. I'm definitly watching this one next time I can.
  • July 19, 2007
    All CLASSICS are GOOD
  • July 16, 2007
    A rare combination of actual good movie and pretty stellar overacting (from Shatner, of course).
  • March 13, 2007
    this is a story about my father

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