Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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David Brian as John Gavin Stevens
Claude Jarman Jr. as Chick Mallison
Juano Hernández as Lucas Beauchamp
Porter Hall as Nub Gowrie
Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Eunice Habersham
Charles Kemper as Crawford Gowrie
Will Geer as Sheriff Hampton
David Clarke as Vinson Gowrie
Elzie Emanuel as Aleck
Lela Bliss as Mrs. Mallison
Harry Hayden as Mr. Mallison
Harry Antrim as Mr. Tubbs
Homer Arnold as Minor Role (uncredited)
John E. Avent as Minor Role (uncredited)
Joyce Ann Baron as Child with Yo-Yo (uncredited)
Tommy Bond as Minor Role (uncredited)
Jack Bronfield as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Allison Busby as Customer (uncredited)
Alberta Dishmon as Paralee (uncredited)
Harold Gean as Patron (uncredited)
W.P. Haley as Customer (uncredited)
Ann Hartsfield as Girl (uncredited)
George T. Hemphill as Crowd Member (voice) (uncredited)
Ben Hilbun as Attendant (uncredited)
Noel Hodge as Crowd Member (voice) (uncredited)
E.L. Hooker as Minor Role (uncredited)
Eylla Jacobs as Woman (uncredited)
John M. Keel as Patron (uncredited)
W.G. Kimmons as Deputy (uncredited)
James Kirkwood as Convict (uncredited)
Will Lewis as Minor Role (uncredited)
Ephraim Lowe as Gowrie Twin (uncredited)
Julia S. Marshbanks as Molly Beauchamp (uncredited)
Dewey McCoy as Crowd Member (voice) (uncredited)
John Morgan as Convict (uncredited)
Jack Odom as Truck Driver (uncredited)
Freddie B. Patton as Barber (uncredited)
Mike Riva as Crowd Member (uncredited)
Eugene Roper as Fraser's Son (uncredited)
C.E. Slough as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Guy Turnbow Sr. as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Dan White as Will Legate (uncredited)
R.X. Williams as Mr. Lilley (uncredited)
E.H. Windham as Minor Role (uncredited)
Howard Winters as Minor Role (uncredited)
Robert Lee Young as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
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