Intruder in the Dust (1949)

John Gavin Stevens: Mr. Hampton is right Miss Eunice, and so are you. They'd pass even Will Legate sooner or later when there's enough of them.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] But there's one thing that would stop them. Long enough anyhow.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] And that's somebody without a gun.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] A Lady. A White Lady.

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John Gavin Stevens: [to Lucas] You don't want justice; you want mercy.

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Crawford Gowrie: Miss Haversham, I'm not gonna touch yuh now. You're an old lady, but you're in the wrong. You're fightin' the whole county, but you're gonna get tired, and when yuh do get tired, we're gonna go in.
Miss Eunice Habersham: [Unflustered] I'm goin' for eighty, and I'm not tired yet.

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MGM paid Faulkner $50,000 for the film rights to his 1948 novel.
The film was shot on location in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.
Will Geer and Juano Hernandez also co-starred in The Reivers, which was also based on a novel by William Faulkner.
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