Special Report: The Intruder (1962)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we're looking at the 1962 film from Roger Corman, The Intruder. The film stars William Shatner as Adam Cramer, a stranger who comes to the Southern town of Caxton, a town on the brink of school integration. Cramer is there to stop integration or, moreover, he’s there to stir up trouble.
The film was written by Charles Beaumont who based the screenplay on his own novel of the same name.
Elric Kane and Chris Stachiw join Mike to discuss this remarkable and disturbing film that demonstrates how a demagogue can rise to power by stoking the fires of fear and hatred.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:12.1	This man, take a good look at him.
0:14.9	He's a specialist.
0:16.7	He knows exactly how to turn this quiet town into a hell of violence.
0:21.6	The Negroes will literally, and I too mean literally, control the self.
0:27.6	They are willing to fight down to the last ditch and keep fighting until this thing is over.
0:40.3	The intruder. He made the sleepy town of Caxton his town for his reason.
0:45.3	He played on their fears and their hatreds.
0:48.3	This town became a headline for the intruder.
0:52.3	He brought an end to innocence.
0:55.0	He exploited a woman's weakness.
0:58.0	He turned neighbor against neighbor.
1:00.0	How come you walk that bunch of black niggers to our white school?
1:04.0	I don't see anything I do as any business of yours.
1:08.0	And sooner or later it would happen.
1:12.3	He would make it happen.
1:13.5	Over here.
1:23.4	You were alone with a white girl in the basement of the school.
1:26.4	But you didn't try to do anything.
1:28.9	Is that what you expect us to believe, nigger?
2:14.4	Let's see. Go! The Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White.
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