Remembering "The Intruder"

Roger Corman and William Shatner talk about their experience making The Intruder, often hailed as Corman's best film. Corman is commonly known as a prolific director of B-movies like the original Little Shop of Horrors, but "The Intruder" was an attempt to make a "legitimate" film with serious social commentary. It was one of Shatner's first starring film roles.

Excerpted from Wikipedia: The Intruder is a 1962 American film directed by Roger Corman, after a novel by Charles Beaumont, starring William Shatner. Also called Shame in US release, and The Stranger in the UK release. The story centers around the machinations of a racist named Adam Cramer (portrayed by Shatner), who arrives in the fictitious small southern town of Caxton in order to incite townspeople to racial violence against the town's Black minority and court-ordered school integration.

The film was shot in black and white on location in Missouri. The production was thrown out of East Prairie, Missouri, and Charleston, Missouri, because the locals objected to the film's addressing racism and segregation. Although it only had a budget of $80,000, the film lost money at the box office, as the major studios had predicted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intruder_(1962_film)

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[rgstout1]

I was in this movie. I was 16 years old and a junior in high school. I was in sikeston Little theater, and Corman had auditions for parts in the movie. I played Danny (I was the tall young man with the crewcut and acne, and was in several scenes). One thing roger corman did not say, was the night they sneeked out of town, they failed to pay there large Motel bill from the Sands Motel in Charleston, MO

[oldhacks]

@rgstout1 guerrilla film making at its finest.

[ebonics4everyone]

Fortunately St Louis is 98% black today, so you're more likely to gang banged than meet anyone like Adolf Shatner these days. Yay, progress.

[ebonics4everyone]

Apparently everywhere South of the 49th paralell is crawling with Klansmen.

[ebonics4everyone]

Missouri is the Deep South? Is North Dakota the new Tennessee? Still wanna see Capn Kirk act like a racist prick though. Im renting it asap.

[UncleCharlieOakley]

@Caxton1488 Ignoramus. Rot in hell. Oh, wait -- you've already created one in your sad, tiny, crabbed little shithole of a mind.

[Blackoutx86]

Now that Integration has proven to be catastrophic in pretty much every aspect we see that Shitner is nothing more than a scumbag for his part in promoting it through extremely amoral and subversive brainwashing movies.

[Caxton1488]

@Nemesis7293

Calm down you hysterical homo...FFS..

[Nemesis7293]

@Caxton1488 Wow, you're actually claiming that Jews aren't WHITE??? Yeah, Shatner's Jewish....Corman's half-Jewish. I'm not Jewish at all......I am gay, which you probably hate even more than if I was Jewish. Guess what? Jews and gays are NOT going anywhere.....EVER. Assholes like you.....you're going down the societal toilet as we speak. Enjoy hell.

[wileyecoyote1]

@rgstout1 i was also in the movie running down the street i was looking thru old movies here in nashville and ran across this and remembered the name

[yeggomiester]

good ole charleston, mo it's funny to think that ppl in europe will acctually spend money to watch a movie filmed here in a town of like 5 maybe 6 thousand at the most..