A Southerner’s Movie Guide, Part XV

 

21.   Faulkner in Film   

Southern viewers must naturally be interested in what Hollywood has done with America’s greatest 20^th century writer, William Faulkner of Mississippi.

**Intruder in the Dust (1949).  Perhaps the most faithful of all Faulkner’s work on film, and a realistic portrayal of Southern life in the early 20^th century.  An old lady (Elizabeth Patterson) and two boys, one white and one black, go to great lengths to save a cantankerous black man from a murder charge and lynching.

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