The Intruder 1962 William Shatner

The Intruder (1962) full movie. AKA "Shame" is a low budget Roger Corman film that deals with early integration in the south. William shatner portrays a carpet bagger from the North? Who just shows up to cause trouble. The film is way ahead of its time when you consider the strife we are encountering in 2020. Watch it! - Broken Trout -

[@beerdrinker6452]

That is the best line in a movie I have ever heard: If you do not like my personality, you do not have to subject yourself to it. Academy award please.

[@lankylankster7148]

Shatner was only in his 20's when this film was made. Took a lot of guts and dedication to his craft as an ACTOR to play a role like this so early in his career, and to hell with consequences. And what happened? The guy ended up becoming a LEGEND anyways! Way to go, Kirk! Stickin' it to THE MAN!!!

[@tripphoenix6123]

WS was in his early 30s (31 or 32) on that film

[@treeartist9705]

3 or 4 years before Star Trek. No doubt this performance helped him become captain Kirk

[@lankylankster7148]

@@tripphoenix6123 Who cares 'bout the dorky details? Got anything interesting to say about THE FILM, as opposed to correcting strangers over the 'Net?

[@lankylankster7148]

@@treeartist9705 Yes, I think you may be right. He played the hero in this film (at least at first), just like Trek, but he had his dark side - again, like Trek. Good call!

[@E-Kat]

@@tripphoenix6123thank you so much for this! I thought he looked older than twenty something. Thanks to you I didn't need to look this up. You're kind. 😊

[@richardstaples8621]

Never heard if this movie before I stumbled on it tonight but - wow. Shades of To Kill a Mockingbird.

[@thejerseyj5479]

The opening scene reminds me of a time when people worked and shopped "downtown". I always loved going downtown. Sad how these towns are largely vacant now as the malls killed them. And now, ironically enough, Amazon has killed the malls.

[@tommyhaynes9157]

I remember that too in the south in the 60s. The blacks were only allowed to shop on tuesday. Wasn't all fun for them

[@Mike-yg8ig]

I wonder what will kill Amazon? Something always seems to come along.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

me too. but there were always black troublemakers and muggers around. so, it wasn't fun.

[@staciasmith5162]

There are quite a few malls still around, just not so many. Walmart has strangled a lot of the smaller malls/shopping centers.

[@patrickhenigin4805]

What will kill Amazon? We thought Sears would last forever.

[@lindajackson1735]

Not a William Shatner fan but I’m glad I hit play. Amazing movie still relevant today.

[@geertcusters5014]

Nobody mentioned the FANTASTIC score by Herman Stein. A cinemusical masterpiece.

[@texassmokingmonkey]

actually reminded me of a de Mille epic, this music

[@Scott-et4kd]

...Really? Was about to post about how I can't watch most of these old movies because of how inappropriate the music is, and this sub-marginal movie, in particular.

[@charlesvorones3612]

@@Scott-et4kd What scenes had inappropriate music? Some of it was very dramatic; but i don't think any of it was corny, like so many big-budget Hollywood movies. The opening edgy, agitated passages, with the angular melody sets up the disturbing subject matter well.

[@Scott-et4kd]

@@charlesvorones3612 Your opinion has merit. What I mean by 'inappropriate music" is that it calls attention to itself when it should accent or "punctuate" a portrayed mood or culture, or foreshadow the next mood. I also have in mind that this use (abuse) of music was the culture of film during this period. It was used in this inelegant manner simply because it was standard practise, rather than for artistic expression. It's gradually been on the way out, since about 1970, or so, when the movies "Patton" and "2001" (particularly it's "Thus Sprake Zarathustra" theme) revolutionized the use of music in film, such that movie soundtracks became available in record stores. I think the Silent Era, however, saw the most appropriate and artistic use of music to punctuate mood, as well as a film's portrayed "culture."

[@zykerriaanderson6991]

Joey Greene’s mother in this film is my Great Grandmother. It’s crazy seeing her in this movie. It was filmed right in my hometown. ❤️

[@jule_ah]

So cool! 👏😊

[@TravondaHorrell]

Our beautiful Great Grandmother ❤

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Oh wow!

[@maxinef6654]

Wow. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@JC-hu1wd]

Hi from England. What town was it filmed in? I assume Caxton is fictional.

[@klaatu368]

Perhaps more relevant now than it was then. Thank you, Broken Trout, for making this available.

[@lance8080]

Why more relevant ???? USA is over flowing with a rainbow of colored people and homosexual rights

[@patriciaanndemello4652]

This movie was so well done. I've never seen William Shatner play a bad guy. He was good. He has such range in acting.

[@marycooper8385]

Humanity at its finest

[@marycooper8385]

I knew it was a setup from the start

[@marycooper8385]

He should have too if it walks like a duck.and talks like a duck it's a duck

[@loristonscott5978]

@@patriciaanndemello4652 Most actors will tell you, “it’s much more fun to play the bad guy,” and movies are only as good as their villains. KIRK vs KHAN, Star Trek II. Shatner and Montalban at their finest.

[@scorpionkobra]

This movie proved that William Shatner can pull off a bad role very well. Movie is so good and tense that I didn't realize how fast it's ended

[@louisbrugnoni1291]

Roger Corman’s best movie! I would’ve never guessed this was his!

[@moonstar4121]

I thought he only did Halloween movies 🤓

[@jacobsoper4708]

RIP Roger Corman. This is his masterpiece.

[@JonnOfMars]

Tremendously powerful movie. Should be held in much higher regard.

[@Atodaso]

@R WE OUTA BUBBLE GUM? Uh, not really.

[@jamespfp]

It is actually shocking to think this hasn't been remade in the last 5-10 years.

[@yggdrasild755]

powerful yes, in an anti white way

[@mikeoak5289]

@@jamespfp No one recently would have the guts to make a movie this realistic.

[@jamespfp]

@@mikeoak5289 Ah but see, if it were to be remade the first thing most modern productions would try to do would be to change any and all "realism" for more over-the-top ideology. In other words, because it has not been remade it might actually stand a longer test of time, at least until the "wrong side" (politically) gets the hint that it is somehow "problematic" for them.

[@kirnpu]

Man, Shatner has ALWAYS had it. I'll watch him in anything, even Incubus (his film in Esperanto). I've never seen this before but does he ever deliver. And hats off to Roger Corman. I love his films but have never seen one like this. Gifted actor, gifted director.

[@redditanonymous-p9w]

William Shatner and Roger Corman, both in their 90s and still working.

[@soulvigilante]

Shatner is a gifted linguist in more ways than one. On top of his legendary "hurricane tongue" William Shatner can really sell Esperanto.

[@graemesmith6721]

@@soulvigilante He also speaks fluent French.

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

I’ll have to find Incubus. A film in Esperanto? My grandma and grandpa learned it!

[@kirnpu]

@@gloriamontgomery6900 Definitely worth a watch!

[@richardu.7996]

A classic. The American people need to see this on national networks in prime time.

[@SaraDavis-l6h]

I lived through it, nobody needs to see it agai .

[@Oldeagle66]

Not many people watch them anymore. I haven't in years and I'm a senior.

[@rafaelramirez3180]

I just love William Shatner ...one of my all time favorite actors ...WOW!! This gem was directed by Roger Corman .. by the way ...what a cast !!

[@sunchildgaia]

Shatner plays scoundrel eerily well!

[@graemesmith6721]

He actually played a lot of scumbags before Star Trek.

[@staciasmith5162]

I'll always love Spock but Leonard Nimoy was another one who played a scoundrel, a psychopathic murderer, a monster and thief before and after Star Trek.

[@juliepiemonte3268]

Have you ever seen Andy Griffith in "A Face in the Crowd"? Talk about a scoundrel...

[@lewisforsythe1403]

Scoundrel?

[@clintprovance8047]

Check his performance in Boris Karloff thriller episode the Grim Reaper it was shown near the end of season 1 of Boris Karloff thriller Natalie Schafer of Gilligan's Island appears in this episode.

[@drlobomalo]

This movie is based on the activities of one John Kasper and his role in the 1956 Clinton, Tennessee Desegregation Crisis. Kasper was a Columbia University grad from New Jersey who went South to engage in anti-integration agitation on the advice of the then-incarcerated poet Ezra Pound. There's a lot of material on the internet about him. Very colorful character, if you'll excuse the expression.

[@BrokenTrout]

Thanks for the info @drlobomalo

[@donnaowen5953]

Such a poignant movie for these times thank you for the upload

[@terrencemiller5284]

I grew up during Jim Crow and for that Time this was a great and risky Movie. William Shatner Movie 1962 and in 2021 catapulted into Space for 5 minutes !!!

[@rtqii]

I remember segregated drinking fountains in the court house playground, and in the department store in the city.

[@AB-zm9ps]

This a terrific example of a film in which the dramatic theme and ideas are strengthened and better conveyed by black and white .

[@novavon88]

So to speak...

[@DarkmanPoe]

Really shows that Corman had what it took (and then some) to be a "serious" director. Shame this didn't find a bigger audience. It would have changed his whole career.

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

Roger Corman, the considered by "professional critics" as an "exploitation king without taste" made here one of the bravest, most courageous american movies ever, in that time when the things were changing but still remained pure hate inside some dark hearts... Beyond the low budget and the rough and disturbing violence, this is a desperate cry to defend the human rights, justice, integrity and moral. Corman was never so close of perfection like in this moment.

[@awehaul1317]

A groundbreaking Civil Rights Drama years ahead of it’s time.

[@graemesmith6721]

Actually, it was absolutely of its time. That's one reason it flopped at the box office.

[@lawsonj39]

@@graemesmith6721 That's an intriguing comment.

[@graemesmith6721]

@@lawsonj39 Not really. Americans in 1962 weren't interested in hearing anything bad about America, only how great it was. They'd turned a blind eye to the South's disgusting behavior for decades. It wasn't until television brought them face to face with the embarrassing, disgraceful ugliness of Southern racism that things began to change.

[@graemesmith6721]

@@lawsonj39 I thought it was rather self-evident. Americans in 1961 weren't interested in hearing anything bad about their country.

[@toecutter1015]

@@graemesmith6721in 2024 the denial of hearing what is actually wrong with this liberal run no merit no standards corruption racism and lies is so much worse today than ever before

[@jamespfp]

Ya know, it is kinda strange and wonderful how this is one of the rare gems from Roger Corman where the low budget had little or no impact on the production value, and it doesn't suffer from being too dated.

[@DeeEight]

The funny thing is the movie failed to find an audience in 1962 but the similarly themed In the Heat of the Night got massive audiences only five years later. Roger got a stunningly good performance out of Bill, probably one of his top 5 performances of his entire career.

[@reblahuty63]

ok, this movie was poorly scripted and poorly acted. it is ironic that william shatner, the racist in this film just a few years latter had the honor of participating in the first interracial kiss on broadcast television when he kissed lt. uhuru on star trek. ok, so the aliens controlled his mind and made him kiss her. but in 1968 or so a white man kissing a black woman was a big deal.

[@SwedishMeattball]

​@@reblahuty63just shows you know nothing at all 😅most feel shatner deserved an oscar here poor acting who moron?

[@SwedishMeattball]

​@@reblahuty63see how stupid you democrats are you.miss the whole point 😂

[@newellaorbana]

Because it made no sense. Northern racists didn't cause Southerners to be mean.

[@SwedishMeattball]

it was a risky film to make he found an audience but wouldnt play it in the south

[@RSEFX]

The man who played the principal was the writer who wrote the novel on which this film is based. He also wrote a number of very memorable episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Charles Beaumont...who was to live only a few more years after this as he soon developed a terminal illness. One of the street thugs, the guy with the big creepy grin, also wrote some memorable episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE (among many other things) George Clayton Johnson. The cinematographer was the famous Haskell Wexler, who had to work for non-union rates and rules on this low-budget (and risky-to-shoot) film, which is why he used a pseudonym in the credits. The actor who played the guy who has the big showdown with Kramer at the end was also a screenwriter who not only wrote films like THE TERROR for director Corman, but big films like TOBRUK...a fine character actor and underrated. Having seen this before STAR TREK aired for the first time, I thought it a VERY strange choice to cast William Shatner as Captain Kirk, as he has a history of playing creepy, sleazy characters. Took a while to get used to him.

[@RTMoney]

Wow! Chuck full of gems! Thanks for sharing! Big fan of Beaumont, Serling, Corman, Matheson, Johnson, Molan...

[@finalflowerchild]

The best "Twilight Zone," for me, was"Kick the Can."

[@jonathanwilson672]

Alexander the great was another of the sleazy roles Mr Shatner performed in...this movie reflected the covergence of old and new social attitudes regarding race...we must today guard against those who would profit politically by restoring those attitudes about a race that no longer present as the law abiding moral and Civic minded people they represent in this movie.

[@internationalicon]

That's George Clayton Johnson at 23:00, running up to the swingset. Went on to write such films as Logan's Run and Ocean's 11.

[@graemesmith6721]

@@jonathanwilson672 There are a lot of people in this country who would like to turn the clock back to 1950.

[@binyon7]

Timely reminder... Nothing good comes from The Demagogue. How easily people can love words of hate.

[@DewayneKimble]

This was filmed in my hometown Charleston, Missouri. There are a couple of my family members in the film and the church where the pastor gave the speech in front of, is the church I was raised in (Perry Chapel AME Church).

[@charlesgoede2809]

Thanks for that input. Do you still reside there?

[@DewayneKimble]

@@charlesgoede2809 No but I still have friends and family there and visit from time to time.

[@RTMoney]

Very cool!

[@tylermorrison7051]

Some of the film was also shot in neighboring Sikeston, MO. I know a local man who played the kid in the cafe. I would assume he's in his 70's now.

[@DewayneKimble]

@@tylermorrison7051 Do you remember the time stamp? I have a cousin that played in the movie, it might be him, his in his 70's. I was born in Sikeston, grew up in Charleston and went to college in Cape Girardeau.

[@hasanyTbk]

Wonderful Movie. This reminds me of the ✨ Startreck when Kirk's evil side manifested in an opposite person. He was excellent actor

[@kevinkrochak2546]

Damn! That hit harder than expected. Great post...thank you BT!!

[@Argonaut121]

Shatner spent 3 years early in his career doing Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival in his native Canada.

[@miapdx503]

This is the kind of script writing that is lacking today. So well thought out, so deep and truthful. Today ,sorry, but what they're writing is crap.

[@guignolfest]

It was written by an original Twilight Zone writer, Charles Beaumont! :D

[@nedludd7622]

There is proably the same percentage of good to bad as there was back then.

[@rondabrewer3185]

I think 💭 the majority of HollyWood is now owned by the Chinese! And I agree! I was just telling a friend of mine that It has been so long, when I would see a movie trailer and say, “I can not wait until it comes out, because I have GOT to see this on the big screen !!

[@rondabrewer3185]

I haven’t watched this movie yet, wanted to read some of the comments 1st, and now I REALLY can’t wait to watch ! Did they re-make this movie? There is one on FXM right now also called the ‘Intruder’

[@tonyneal4716]

These days they think that the use profanities and special effects substitutes for good story telling.

[@guignolfest]

There are at least two Twilight Zone writers and one TZ actor involved in this movie. Picture if you will Roger Corman as a Twilight Zone director! This is as close as we'll get. Imagine if you will Rod and Roger collaborating. Born ahead of their time, reporters, or prophets? This is great movie! Proud to say Roger and Julie Corman have been in the back seat of our car! :D

[@orbyfan]

Charles Beaumont and George Clayton Johnson were credited Twilight Zone writers, while William F. Nolan and O.C. (OCee) Ritch frequently ghosted for Beaumont when he was too busy with projects, and later, too ill to write.

[@mikethek5494]

Wow! Roger Corman said the lack of audience ($$profit$$) for this film convinced him that, "From that moment on I thought my films should be entertainment on the surface and I should deliver any theme or idea or concept beneath the surface." Wikipedia

[@kimbattles2399]

I recognize and saw Jeanie Cooper, Mrs. Chancellor from the Young and The Restless. WOW.

[@heartlandhobbyist7516]

It’s so different to hear Jeanne Cooper talk without the rasp in her voice she had by the time she was on Y&R. She had the prettiest eyes!

[@robbranigin2645]

shatner is just magnificent in this. great film. timelier than ever.

[@carolannpacificadam1944]

D B Cooper Did anyone ever find his remains?

[@graemesmith6721]

@@carolannpacificadam1944 No.

[@graemesmith6721]

@@carolannpacificadam1944 No, his body was never found, but some of the money was.

[@davebaltzell6219]

WOW. WOW. That was way more movie than I expected! nearly turned it off several times as offensive. Was glad I didn't! Shatner in this role was as good as Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd. And the writer as the high school principal added to the moment of the movie. Overall, a powerful reminder of the evil of bigotry and how easily evil can mislead people.

[@AB-zm9ps]

Mirror Mirror

[@graemesmith6721]

Shatner has always been a good actor, and before Star Trek, he played mostly scumbags. In fact, Captain Kirk could be a kind of scummy too, when the situation required him to be.

[@bme7491]

"Damn it, I'm a star ship captain, not a carpetbagger."

[@Lethgar_Smith]

These dark days are long gone And the days of confusion we live in now shall also pass. Humanity's destiny is to transcend its weaknesses. We've been doing it for thousands of years and we wont stop now.

[@patrickhenigin4805]

Looks like those dark days may not be gone. There are people trying to bring them back.

[@graemesmith6721]

@@patrickhenigin4805 There are always people trying to turn back the clock, like aging Baby Boomers waxing nostalgic for the time when they were kids, when everything was "great." They won't succeed--time marches on and 1961 is gone forever--but they can cause a lot of strife in the process of failing.

[@skibee421]

@@graemesmith6721 do i sense jealousy from u grae? bitter or what ?

[@graemesmith6721]

@@skibee421 Get back to me when you learn how to write properly.

[@purplepaisleypassion]

@@graemesmith6721guess you got your answer then: DEFINITELY jealous and bitter.

[@waltjohnson8324]

Corman and Shatner way back in '62 show us the world it seems some would have us return to. Very powerful depiction of hate and especially of those who would use it as a tool; it being so much easier - and more fulfilling? - to set fires than to put them out. We may have thought such things were behind us, but our own era says otherwise. Fully invested work by everyone involved.

[@jsmith498]

It's certainly worked well for BLM and the Democrats. Gotta stir up that hate and division to win support.

[@ianhanley-lopez969]

Agree, ignorant liars who deny the documented reality of systemic racism are trying to burn down our society, only by addressing ubiquitous implicit bias and how white folks created self-perpetuating extant racial disparities and the remnants of overt racism can we put out the fire of systemic racism

[@SwedishMeattball]

blm and antifa are the hate groups now they literally set thousands of fires

[@brett3025]

Excellent film. Hits you right in the face.

[@andyyelbid]

Powerful film' A real tour de force for both Shatner and Corman.Thanks BT.

[@loristonscott5978]

Shatner is great in this and Corman deserves a lot of credit for taking a break from low budget horror films to making this film at that time. The writer, Charles Beaumont, wrote a lot of Twilight Zone episodes that clearly addressed social issues of the time. This movie and A FACE IN THE CROWD should be required viewing at a lot of rally’s today.

[@klaatu368]

loristonscott, I suspect that a movie like A Face in the Crowd would be beyond many who, nonetheless, would find Lonesome Rhodes just to their liking. Great Andy Griffith performance, btw.

[@sylviasimpson-n2o]

It is a horror movie.

[@patchwork_girl]

This and Face in the Crowd would make a fantastic double feature.

[@lindaemmart2583]

People are so horrible, I can't stand to watch this anymore. Times have changed...but people have not. Shatner does a great job acting out this vile character.

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

He’s just so smarmy

[@chrisgillard6129]

That is one wild and crazy film. Thanks for the delivery. Hope you can deliver more great stuff. Thanks.

[@tommyhaynes9157]

I've seen a few Corman movies and this one is on another level

[@dvancino1471]

First thought, realization of how old Shatner is and how alive and well he is, still acting. He should bottle it.

[@RedEyed2012]

Thanks for this great copy! I saw Corman's World. This was mentioned. Wow. You cannot pigeonhole people by race or by perceptions of their talent and work.

[@SallySallySallySally]

This is a rare find. This was a Roger Corman film of a story written by Charles Beaumont, a prolific writer whose stories were portrayed in many productions including many episodes of "The Twilight Zone." Beaumont has a cameo role in this movie playing the role of "Mr. Paton." He was 32 here but looked older because of his affliction with Pick's disease (he died six years after this.)

[@JMacque]

Great film. Shatner delivers. Thanks for another great post BT!!

[@jamesyates1432]

Brilliant film. Should be required viewing.

[@DanBryant-qj2pl]

I am 55. I have learned to be patient. The patience of Job. But what really pushes me to the most limits more than anything else is when people won’t admit their own faults. The desire to be right, over the desires to be happy. The refusal to admit truth, even when truth is blaring right in front of them. They still demand to be right. I must be right. I will except nothing other than being right. Even when all evidence points to the cadre. Drives me crazy. It seems like such a simple thing. Admit when you’re wrong. Just simply admit when you’re wrong. There’s a big freedom in that.

[@johnwilliamson2707]

60 years later and we're sliding back to this malignant hate. Thanks to Roger Corman and Charles Beaumont for creating a vivid, un-P.C. film that is relevant even now.

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

One of Corman's finest films!

[@johninjersey]

Depressing movie! And now that malignant hate you speak of is directed at white people! They flipped the script for political purposes! Democrats need to keep blacks on their plantation. Keep in mind Democrats voted en-mass against the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. 🤒

[@ianhanley-lopez969]

Regressives label things they don't want to face "politically correct", so when confronted with racism they will chant "politically correct" to silence any serious discussion of racism. So this film IS what such backwards folks call "politically correct" since it addresses an aspect of racism. The phrase "politically correct" has no substance, it's meaningless, just gibberish whose only purpose is to prevent discussions of racism, sexism, homophobia etc, its content is exactly the same as saying "nuhuh, is not, you are"

[@charlesgoede2809]

@@BrianCarnevaleB26 YES, Corman was one of the most underrated guys and his Sci-Fi offerings are wonderful low budget gems as well! If only people of this current and upcoming generations would grow some prospective, we'd all be better off.

[@deedee_31]

wooooow you've said all that there is needed thnk u im watching this right now this morning actually have to pause and come back i just gotta get me some really good grub that means some red seedles grapes teriyaki beef jerky and make a big oyster po-boy haha lol and it that order and my soda pop lol

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Powerful film - thanks for sharing. This needs to be watched and discussed more widely. The issues haven't really gone away, sadly.

[@graemesmith6721]

No, they never went away, not really. The South clings to racism because they desperately need someone to look down on after losing the Civil War. The election of our first black president reignited fear and hatred that had always lurked just beneath the surface.

[@rfmfilmchannel2840]

*Roger Corman reveals the ugly face of racism in a haunting reflection of American society in the early 1960s. A topic that is still relentlessly present today. An outstanding masterpiece!*

[@steelwheels327]

Hard to hear & see the ignorance of how people were and still can be today.

[@robertdoherty2001]

Fascinating movie....far, far above Corman’s usual schlock. The real heart of the film is at 44:54. Shatner’s character is laid bare at 53:46. Astonishingly good performances throughout.

[@aprylbossert8077]

If we erase history, we are doomed to repeat it. I’m so surprised this hasn’t been removed, but I’m hoping others will see what it was like, and learn from it! Not all southern folk were thinking this way, but certainly some were. Thank the Lord times are changed!

[@Bill23799]

Apryl when some people try to condemn America and say today we are a systemic racist country I wish they would watch this film. This is what systemic racism used to look like. I am not saying we are perfect but I grew up in the 60's and I know for a fact we have come a long way. Of course we still have some idiots in our midsts and ignorance knows no color or race barrier. But overall I believe we are a good people and I take no knee to anyone who would try to make me think otherwise.

[@Atodaso]

This isn't a statue in a town square depicting an enemy of the USA. It's a film showing how Americans used to, and in some cases still do, treat other humans. It's not going anywhere.

[@westtnskirmishlog6820]

@@Atodaso Enemy of the US?

[@Mortico88]

@@Bill23799 Yes, this is how it used to look like, it also still looks like this sometimes. There are bombings of black churches, cops murdering unarmed black men, and white supremacists just like Cramer are still at large, selling hate and fear. They just use twitter now instead of the courthouse steps. The racism in America today is far more subtle, but in a way it's just as bad and maybe more widespread. What makes it systematic is that "people" aren't racist directly anymore, but they uphold racist systems built by people who built them specifically to be racist. Systems are upheld that disproportionately target minorities, that disproportionately keep minorities poor and uneducated. These systems are so well entrenched that many don't even notice them. It takes more than a "some idiots" to create and uphold the system of oppression. They aren't upholding it for evil reasons, they probably don't even realize what they are doing - all the more reason to expose it so we can see some real change. Civil rights were not solved after MLK, or desegregation, or Obama's presidency. We're not done yet, not by a long shot. We still have a long way to go, and it starts by understanding that not all institutions in America were built with good intentions. The evils of segregation are still here, just better hidden. Some go looking for it to correct those injustices, others pull the wool over their eyes and pretend everything is fine, and everything is fair. But it's not fine, and it's not fair. We have focused too long in this country trying to provide "equality of opportunities" and then blame individuals for not seizing them, for being too lazy or not working hard enough. We need to strive for an "equality of outcomes." If minorities are consistently lagging behind in income, housing, education, nutrition, healthcare and criminal justice, it isn't because they're bad people. It's because they've been cheated. The game was rigged in the time period portrayed in the movie, and it's still rigged now. This is not a zero-sum game where you only gain if someone else loses. Helping others does not mean losing your own rights, we all benefit when the marginalized around us are lifted and respected.

[@Lunarimoths]

@@westtnskirmishlog6820 yes, having statues of confederate leaders is having statues to enemies of the united states... pay attention in history class next time

[@SusanSez1]

I picked this flick because I love old black and white movies and I really like Shatner. I had no idea. Wow. The first time I hear the "n" word, I had to go back and make sure I heard right. I'll never understand racism and am glad I wasn't raised by people like these folks. It's really shocking to me whether it's overt or covert. Either way it's painful and devastating for anyone who is not accepted for just being born the way they are born. This film and its depictions have my blood pressure up. It's hard to watch.

[@chrismei8580]

Shatner played a similar role in "A Town Has Turned to Dust." He gave the sheriff, Rod Steiger, five minutes to release "the Mexican" to the mob. It was a Playhouse 90 TV movie broadcast in 1958.

[@RTMoney]

A nice gem you dropped here! Thank you for sharing that!

[@doktor_ghul]

Rod Serling's script was gutted by the producers. It was supposed to be about the Emmett Till murders, set in modern day, not in the 1800's and happening to romantic Mexicans. Rod once said that once the censors got done gutting his work, his script had turned to dust.

[@misfit2022]

William Shatner has never been better

[@oldsol2012]

Bill Shatner...PURE STAR MATERIAL

[@JamesHausman-j4o]

Nice to see Leo Gordon, one of the all time great villains, playing a hero!

[@Bill23799]

They cut the scene with Shatner at the local Diner and having a confrontation with the little Fortune Telling machine on his table.

[@hull_k0gan641]

Is that the scene loaded with N-bombs?

[@Bill23799]

@@hull_k0gan641 I was being funny there. Shatner was in several Twilight Zone episodes. One was called " Nick of Time ". The story showed shatner and his new bride stopping at a roadside Diner with this little gadget on the table that tells fortunes for a penny.

[@waukivorycopse2402]

The Shat was great in that episode of TZ and this here film.

[@Olefaithfull]

And in the iconic episode with the alien on the wing of the plane.

[@nemomarcus5784]

I lived during that period and I think the movie was toned down from the reality of the period.

[@RichardNogan]

Shatner took on a tuff part, himself being Jewish knows the history of hatred and the holocaust. I imagine many races had their experience also besides the religious persecution which occurred and still does. There is nothing new under the sun as humanity has a problem of repeating history. There has been some improvement but trouble makers with an agenda still pay for riots and division. This flick reminds me of Mississippi Burning. Tku for post.

[@jeffolsen4983]

Again, a great movie. 2nd time for me. Thanks again!

[@scamchan]

This one movie is ruff to watch but has its moments

[@clintprovance8047]

This film is great I was lucky enough to find this film a dozen years ago on DVD and everything all the accolades pay to them is deserved William shatner Leo Gordon was in many westerns almost insane because it tells the truth the truth is not easy to put on film 1:05 thanks to everyone who contributed to this it is a classic and should be shown more often on television 1:05

[@sg-vp2qg]

This was the hardest thing to watch that I can remember. In fact, I had to skip much of it. In my 66 years I have never heard words like that, nor witnessed anything approaching it on film, and never in person. I struggle to believe that peiple can think it's ok to treat other people that way.

[@robertchauval]

Damn thanks for sharing this gem... always liked Roger Cormans work. But. THIS.. THIS.. THING... (summoning my Shatner best overacting..) This is a gem..

[@ivanmilatovic4023]

I rrad about this film when reading Roger Corman's obituaries. What a film. Its impact lies in its plausibility. I can well imagine the atmosphere in the 1950s and early 1960s being exactly like this. And Shatner is off the scale creepy.

[@absolutelydisgusted3319]

I could watch him all day. I honestly don’t think there has ever been a more handsome man or any actor with such a mesmerizing delivery. Oops, I’m gushing. 🤣

[@mochiebellina8190]

Seen him lately?

[@graemesmith6721]

@@mochiebellina8190 When ninety years old you are, look as good you will not.

[@2hcobda2]

6:20 "That & a dime will get you a cup of coffee."

[@bradparker9664]

I love at the school protest someone has a sign about going back to Africa. Who in hell do people like that think kidnapped and brought Blacks out of Africa? But racists don't ever talk about that. Shatner is great as always, but one who deserves credit who I do not see mentioned much is the late great Charles Beaumont. Beaumont was a brilliant writer and was behind many of the greatest episodes of "The Twilight Zone," and wrote "The Intruder" as well. He actually died before "The Twilight Zone" ended if memory serves. He died way too young, but left behind some outstanding writings.

[@msbrowngault]

Lol. & Africa is a continent like which country are you sending me back too? Especially since everyone was all mixed with everything, lol

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

That was harrowing and moving in equal measure. Blind hatred and prejudice: shun it or reap a terrible outcome.

[@arievena19744]

Wow, I know that kind of speech was normal back then, but it was shocking to hear how casually grandma lady said the "n" word. How scared those kids must have been to walk into school. God bless them.

[@graemesmith6721]

When the University of Alabama opened its doors to black students, the first two had to be escorted to their classes by the National Guard, and Alabama governor George Wallace tried to physically bar their way on national television. That's part of what turned public opinion against the South, because the rest of America got to see how ugly Southern racism was. Television turned it into a national embarrassment.

[@GradeBmoviefan]

Wow. What a strong movie. I wonder if this movie is why many of his Star Trek co-stars apparently didn’t care for him. He played this role extremely well. Wow.

[@beyourself2444]

Shatner is a Jew and he was acting so no...

[@GradeBmoviefan]

Be Yourself I know who Shatner is. I also know he is an actor and that he was acting. I also know that his Star Trek co-stars had problems with working with him. No one but Shatner and his co-workers know. Shatner did play this role well. And it may well be part of the reason they had a problem. Perhaps Shatner just had too much control and input over the show. Who really knows.

[@NinjaDimes]

@@GradeBmoviefan If you read his Star Trek Memories, and Star Trek Movie Memories books (they are both great reads by the way) he talks about why they hated him and tries to be candid about it, and he tries to find out why. He said Doohan didn't want to talk to him any more and Nichelle Nichols did talk to him but was still bitter about it but said it was basically because he was a narcissist, that he wanted the spotlight to be on himself, that he had too much control of the show and wrote the others out... not because he was racist. Then again would they say that's what it was? I guess not. But from what the books say he was very pro the diverse cast and was a huge proponent of the kiss scene between Kirk and Uhura and he was one of the people who fought the network because the network didn't want to do the interracial kiss. He's also talked about it and so have some of the others, and they've never even hinted at racism. All everyone says is has/had a big ego especially in his prime, so I imagine that's why he didn't get along with the cast. He apparently is very self centered. However, he became somewhat more humble later and the 3 leads did get along eventually, Nimoy and Shatner especially were friends-- he wrote a book about the friendship.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Walter Koenig spoke to Shatner on his show Raw Nerve and basically told him he was a disappointment to Walter because he saw in him his potential to be a better person and could have been the natural leader of the cast and instead he squandered that on his pettiness and insecurities.

[@patientzerobeat]

Nah, I can't imagine any of them being jealous becomes of Shatner's acting ability (and in this movie he's quite excellent). Some of his Star Trek cast-mates have even praised his acting. I also don't think any of his castmates are dumb enough to conflate a convincing acting role with some innate personality (otherwise, stay away from Anthony Hopkins... he's a cannibal!) The dislike has largely to do with Shatner being a prima-donna, wanting top-billing [and most of the good lines etc.) to the detriment of others. Two things can be true at the same time: He's very good at what he does and can also be a jerk. Steve Jobs would be another example in a completely unrelated field.

[@davewebbtheauthor]

Almost expected to hear Rod Serling's voice at the end when Cramer dropped the bullets to the ground and the shot zoomed out. It was Evil Kirk in the Twilight Zone.

[@alphaofthebetas4780]

Five years after causing a race riot in Caxton, William Shatner would be having the first interracial kiss on national TV. He learned the error of his ways.

[@delzworld2007]

Some superb acting in the powerful movie. I think there is one particular 'gentleman' in the USA today, who needs to be shown for the manipulative, nasty and evil minded man that he really is.

[@skibee421]

george soros

[@mikenixon2401]

Very good and significant film, Trout.

[@GoldAndSilver988]

Bill went from this role to being part of Prime Time's first integrated kiss.

[@TheVetusMores]

With regard to the description _"The film is way ahead of its time when you consider the strife we are encountering in 2020,"_ well, we had made tremendous progress until certain elements (race baiters, but I won't say whom) sought to divide us for political gain. It's so sick. Three years after you uploaded this, many of those same forces are still hard at work, but more and more people are on to them: their efforts will _fail,_ because people do *not* naturally "hate" like they hope we will. They cannot stop us loving one another.

[@slickchick5811]

Much needed dope slap at the end!

[@BrianWachter]

That this is a pre-civil rights movement film makes it super important to remember and revive.

[@78rpmblues]

This is the story of Adam Cramer, a wanna-be fuehrer, who travels to a Missouri town to spread his hate, his prejudice, his bigotry. He's come to the right place, because here Adam Cramer will find a receptive audience. This story was written and published in 1958 by Charles Beaumont, the ahead of its time novel anticipated the integration struggles of the 1960's. Beaumont was a great writer, you may know him from many Twilight Zone episodes. The Intruder became Roger Corman's first commercial flop. He called its failure "the greatest disappointment in my career." Corman has been dubbed "The King of the Cult Film" and "The Pope of Pop Cinema", and this film though a commercial flop is one of his best efforts. ★★★★

[@garytob8313]

Yes just like the democraps back then and democraps of today

[@garytob8313]

Yes, just like the democraps of today

[@lizlandry3388]

Josh hawley

[@BrokenTrout]

Were gonna be friends, aren't we?. Holy Jebuss.

[@colewebb1425]

Caption caption caption please and let know when you when you have the caption working and I come back to watch thank you

[@colewebb1425]

hi Broken Trout thank you for the caption and letting me know about the caption I'm back to watch thank you :-)

[@mikethek5494]

"We're going to be friends" my little pretty ... Gets creepier everytime he says it.

[@kevinkrochak2546]

Appreciate the great content!

[@pp-bb6jj]

Watching this in 2024 is such an eye opener.

[@johndutchman]

Silly kids these days . don't know how far we've come.

[@davidhull1481]

There’s a lot of interesting actors in this movie. Charles Beaumont, the writer of the piece, Jeanne Cooper, long time soap opera star and mother of Corbin Bergson. And June Foray, voice actor who did Rocket J Squirrel and lots of others.

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

"Let your strength be shown in meekness." 🙏

[@skdinterceptor2828]

Unfortunately.........we still have problems in 2024, its now turned inwards with those who were once the victims.

[@garyteague9555]

I went to school in Charleston Missouri for a couple months in 1972 and the blacks bullied me and most all the other white kids ,I was so glad to leave that place , my older siblings went there from Bertrand grade school and they were treated the same way , yes the N word was used a lot and I quit using that awful word many many years ago and thought my children to love all people but what I’ve learned is the blacks were teach their children to hate mine because they are white , we have got to turn this around, the likes of Al sharpton are the biggest haters in the world

[@msbrowngault]

I am so surprised that Shatner accepted this role, considering he's very, very, very Jewish. But then again, he's Canadian

[@arthurkelly1426]

This has to be one of the best films

[@JohnLockesReflection]

The best Films? It's relatively good, but the best?

[@OLDCHEMIST1]

Surprisingly ahead of its time! Shatner was good playing a racist and I am astonished it didn't wreck his career! I think the ending was rather idealised, considering the time, but still a very good film

[@lenarae3845]

Good movie, hard to stomach until the ending. Two other very good movies having parallels regarding racism and intolerance in the south are To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, with Gregory Peck, and The Fugitive Kind, with Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, written by Tennessee Williams.

[@triciacherise8084]

Thank you. I’m looking for some classics with a deeper theme. Todays films lack so much. I can also see why the south is so hellbent on removing CRT. They are and should be so ashamed of their past.

[@AB-zm9ps]

@@triciacherise8084 Mirror Mirror

[@graemesmith6721]

@@triciacherise8084 You know what I would like to hear a Southerner say? "We were wrong. We went to war to defend something that is indefensible. We rebelled against our government so that we could treat black people like farm equipment. It was wrong of us to do that, and we deserved to lose." I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

[@DrQuadrivium]

Wow, a clear demonstration of narcissistic manipulation, irrational crowd mentality, 'group formation' and, at the end, narcissistic collapse. It also shows plenty of horrific wallpaper design from the period!