The Intruder (1962)

As the dawn of integration casts its first light over a quaint Southern town, a man named Adam Cramer, clothed in a suit as gleaming white as his intentions are dark, descends. He presents himself as a social reformer, a beacon of hope, but his true motives are far from noble. With the art of a puppeteer, he aims to manipulate the town's populace, inciting a fury against the integration of black children into the town's pristine white school. Yet Adam's plans take a sinister turn as he successfully stirs up the dormant prejudices within the town folk. The white citizens, roused to a fever pitch, transform into an uncontrollable mob. The black pastor of a local church and a white newspaper editor bear the brunt of this wrath, trapped in the swirling storm of Adam's making. However, as Adam revels in his apparent control over the town, a man he befriends and swiftly betrays understands the reality. The incensed mob, once Adam's marionettes, are now a force of their own, a tempest beyond his command. The tension escalates when a false accusation against a black student is thrown into the mix, threatening to tip the scales completely. Caught in his own web of deceit, Adam Cramer soon finds out that he has unleashed a power that he can no longer contain. Will he succeed in reining in the chaos, or will his own machinations lead to his downfall? The Intruder is a vivid portrayal of a town teetering on the edge, where the seething undercurrents of prejudice threaten to overrun the fragile barriers of peace.

The Intruder is a drama movie featuring Charles Beaumont and directed by Roger Corman.

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