The Intruder

1962

Action / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 3863 3.9K

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Plot summary

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.


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William Shatner as Adam Cramer
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by The_Void 9 / 10

It may have intruded on Corman's profit margin, but The Intruder stands up as one of his very best efforts!

Roger Corman is most famous for making cheap movies that turned in a big profit. As you might expect, therefore, a vast number of these were absolute rubbish that made you wonder how they ever managed to make a penny, let alone a profit. It is highly ironic therefore that The Intruder is both Corman's first non-profit making film, and one of his very best. Most of Corman's films, while at times entertaining and fun to watch, don't have much in terms of substance; but this is not the case with The Intruder - a film which both entertains and makes you think. The film focuses on Adam Cramer - public speaker and devout racist, dedicated to turning small towns across America against the idea of social integration. The courts have ordered the policy, and so Cramer sets out about inspiring hatred to create a mob to put an end to social integration by brute force. All is going well for the man and his hateful agenda, but when events start to escalate, he finds that the mob he has created is stronger than its leader.

I know that this film didn't cost much to make because it was directed by Roger Corman, but if you didn't know that; you'd never have guessed. There are no big stunts in the film, but the production values are surprisingly high and the acting surprisingly good. The Intruder is bolstered by an excellent performance from William Shatner. Corman apparently blamed the poor box office run on Shatner - but I have no idea why! Shatner does a great job of providing a great portrait of his character - suitably slimy, yet obviously cowardly beneath his confidant public persona. Perhaps the best thing about this film is its simplicity. Bigger films such as American History X have attempted to make a point about racism with not as much success as Corman has here. The scenes that show the crowds really getting behind Cramer's words of hatred are poignant indeed, and the conclusion to the tale both makes a point about bigots and provides a suitable conclusion to Adam Cramer's character arc. Overall, The Intruder is one of the best and most though-provoking films on the tentative subject of racism that I have ever seen, and it comes highly recommended to all!

Reviewed by bkoganbing 3 / 10

Captain Kirk Goes South

The Intruder was Roger Corman's attempt to be topical and socially significant in 1962 with the Civil Rights movement. The man should have stuck to what he knew best, be entertaining.

That's sad because The Intruder had some possibilities and William Shatner wasted a great performance as a racist demagogue. FOr those who want to see Captain Kirk before he became the noble explorer of where no man had gone before, this is your chance. Shatner's anything, but noble in The Intruder.

The film is in a small town in the deep south which is finally going to be integrating its schools as per the Supreme Court. Shatner comes to town and starts to whip up the latent sullen racism underneath the town's surface. He recruits leading citizen Robert Emhardt to his cause, but newspaper editor Frank Maxwell is not such an easy sell. Maxwell has a daughter about to enter high school herself so the impending racial crisis hits him right at home.

Shatner's also stirring a little domestic crisis of his own by moving in on Leo Gordon's nymphomaniac wife Jeanne Cooper while Leo the salesman is on a business trip. I guess Corman figured if civil rights didn't bring them in at the box office a little infidelity and a steamy sex scene never fails.

Well it did fail actually, but mainly because of a muddled script, some unbelievable characters and a bad ending I won't reveal lest people be tempted to see Captain Kirk. I'm still trying to figure out whether Shatner was an advance man for the John Birch Society or the Christian Crusade of Reverend Billy James Hargis. His Patrick Henry Society which he represents in the film seems an amalgam of both.

Unless you're determined, this is one film of William Shatner's that beat be left unexplored.

Reviewed by MartinHafer 9 / 10

One of the best films on race...this is one not to be missed!

This is an amazing film--and what's even more amazing is that it isn't seen as a classic today, as it's one of the best films on race Hollywood has ever made. Unlike many of the more recent films on racism, what I loved about THE INTRUDER is that it is not sanitized in the least--with intense language and horrible mob behavior that make this film terrific.

The film is a lot like combining ELMER GANTRY with a film about racism. William Shatner is the Gantry-like man who comes to town with the express purpose of stirring up the hatred of the White masses towards the Blacks--coinciding with a court order to desegregate the schools. Why he is doing this is never explained, but you know that Shatner is a man with no scruples whatsoever and he seems to enjoy sowing evil and dissension. As for the town, they respond pretty much like you'd expect. A lynch-mob mentality develops and the crowd is looking ugly. At this point, the film comes to an emotional boil--leading to a wonderful climactic finale.

So why did I like the film so much? Well, one reason is that it proved that given a strong and competent director (Roger Corman), Shatner is a good actor and his bigger than life style works well. Mr. Shatner without such strong guidance is a bad thing indeed, as evidenced by films such as IMPULSE (directed by schlock film director William Grefe). Second, Corman really was not afraid to shock the viewer and did not pull any punches. Unlike many other films about race, this one repeatedly used "bad language" (i.e., I must call it this because IMDb does not allow such words on their site--even if it includes mentioning the title of a movie with one of these "bad words" in it). Because of this, it exposed racism for the ugly beast that it is---warts and all. All too often, films take a sanitized view of racism, but in THE INTRUDER it's as ugly and vicious as you can find. I appreciate this because racism is ugly and vicious...duh. Finally, because it is a Corman production from his ultra-low budget era, it was made with minimal expense using exceptional character actors. Because of this, it's like a textbook example of great film making for less money--with a wonderful script, acting and direction.

Sadly, when this movie came out, it was one of the only Corman films that lost money. Well, you can't blame anyone for this--it was simply too far ahead of its time and the country was not yet ready for it. It's a shame, as apparently Mr. Corman blamed Shatner for the failure of the film--it was no one's fault. Because of this, it needs to be seen and appreciated as a great allegorical film that was unjustly ignored.

Also, in an odd observation, I noticed that Roger Corman was listed as 'Rodger Corman' in the credits. This possibly makes this the only film in which the director's name is misspelled. And, if this review piques your curiosity, the film is in the public domain and can be downloaded and watched for free at sites such as archive.org or other public domain sites.

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