The Intruder

Regia: Roger Corman, Stati Uniti, 1962

Stati Uniti, 1962


Génénerique

Casa produtrice Roger and Gene Corman Productions
Produttore Roger Corman
Direttore Roger Corman
Scenaggiatore Charles Beaumont
Direttore della Fotografia Taylor Byars
Musica Taylor Byars
Montaggio Ronald Sinclair
Interpreti Charles Barnes
Robert Emhardt
Beverly Lunsford
Frank Maxwell
William Shatner

Caratteristiche tecniche
Categoria: Lungometraggio
Informazioni tecniche: Format: 35 mm - Bianco e Nero,Durata: 80 minuti
Sistema sonoro: Mono
FSK ab 12 Jahren,

Sinossi (in Tedesco)
In der Kleinstadt Caxton im Süden der Vereinigten Staaten wird ein neues Gesetz verabschiedet: In der örtlichen Schule, die bisher nur von Weißen besucht wurde, wird eine Quote eingeführt, die es zehn schwarzen Schülern erlaubt, am Unterricht teilzunehmen. Doch nicht nur das neue Gesetz bringt Unruhe in die Kleinstadt. Auch Adam Cramer – stets in einen edlen weißen Anzug gekleidet, charmant und attraktiv – sorgt für Aufruhr, als er in die Stadt kommt, um in der Bevölkerung eine Umfrage zu dem neuen Gesetz durchzuführen. Denn schnell wird der charismatische Frauenheld parteiisch. In einer propagandistischen Rede an die Caxtoner Bevölkerung hetzt er gegen Juden, Kommunisten und Schwarze, lässt den amerikanischen Patriotismus aufleben und kooperiert mit dem Ku-Klux-Klan. Einzig Tom McDaniel, Chefredakteur der lokalen Zeitung, wehrt sich gegen den Rassismus und setzt sich für seine schwarzen Mitbürger ein, während seine weißen Freunde die Rassentrennung mit allen Mitteln aufrechterhalten wollen. Als ein Bombenanschlag auf die Kirche der schwarzen Gemeinde verübt wird, Tom McDaniel beinahe zu Tode geprügelt wird und ein Schwarzer fälschlich als Vergewaltiger angezeigt wird, verschärft sich die Lage dramatisch. Roger Corman zeigt, wie selbstverständlich Rassismus, Hass und Intoleranz gegenüber Schwarzen in den USA der 50er und 60er Jahre noch waren. Schonungslos ehrlich inszenierte er die radikale Reaktion eines Teils der Bevölkerung auf die Aufhebung der Segregation. (arte Presse)

Riviste (in Tedesco): The Intruder was not only Roger Corman's most daring and unusual film, but a unique movie in the history of cinema, as one of the few theatrical feature films to deal with school desegregation in the South. William Shatner gives the performance of a lifetime as Adam Cramer, a sly, rabble-rousing racist who travels the South in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision, fomenting protests and riots and organizing white citizens groups with himself at their head. By turns quietly soft-spoken and boldly charismatic, Cramer arrives in a small town where the local white high school is about to get its first black students and manipulates the men, women, and students around him, quietly taking control of the debate and the agenda, and turning a tense situation into a riot. He's opposed by Frank Maxwell, playing a local newspaper editor who pays a terrible price for his thoughtful and reasonable nature, Jeanne Cooper as a woman whom he tried to seduce, and Leo V. Gordon (in a rare benevolent role) as her husband, a working man without a lot of patience for rabble-rousers. In the end, after maiming one man and nearly killing another, Cramer is stopped when he is exposed for what he is -- weak and pathetic when confronted directly. The film was shot on-location in the South despite the active opposition of local authorities and threats from members of the Ku Klux Klan, and once finished, Corman discovered that there was hardly a theater anywhere in America that was willing to play it, because the movie's subject was so incendiary. Thus, The Intruder became just about the only movie Corman ever made that lost money, and was much more widely seen in Europe, where it was greeted simply as a bold, unusual, and well-made film. For reasons not entirely clear, The Intruder turned up on various "public domain" lists in the early '80s and showed up on different cable channels specializing in such fare, but it was never actually out-of-copyright, and finally surfaced in an authorized DVD edition in April of 2001. In addition to future television star Shatner, the cast includes the future soap opera star Jeanne Cooper. Charles Beaumont, a regular contributor to The Twilight Zone, among other anthology series, and whose novel was the source for the film, portrays the school principal. William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, best-known as the authors of the novel Logan's Run, also play small roles. (www.rottentomatoes.com)

Osservazione generali (in Tedesco): Eine Kleinstadt im Süden der USA, Ende der 50er Jahre: In Caxton wird ein Gesetz zur Integration der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerung in eine bis dahin nur von Weißen besuchte Schule eingeführt. Mit dramatischen Folgen. - Oscarpreisträger Roger Corman inszeniert auf Grundlage des Romans "The Intruder" von Charles Beaumont die schockierende Realität eines Amerikas in den 1950er Jahren. (arte Presse)

General Information

The Intruder is a motion picture produced in the year 1962 as a Stati Uniti production. The Film was directed by Roger Corman, with Charles Barnes, Robert Emhardt, Beverly Lunsford, Frank Maxwell, William Shatner, in the leading parts.

Bibliografia - Festival Locarno 1999, Katalog

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