Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Starring:

• Juano Hernandez
• David Brian 
• Claude Jarman Jr. 
• Porter Hall 
• Elizabeth Patterson 
• Charles Kemper 
• Will Geer 
• David Clarke 
• Elzie Emanuel

Storyline
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence. 

Way Down South (1939)

Starring:

• Clarence Muse
• Bobby Breen 
• Alan Mowbray 
• Matthew 'Stymie' Beard 
• Ralph Morgan 
• Marguerite Whitten 
• Steffi Duna 
• Sally Blane 
• Willie Best 
• Lillian Randolph

Storyline
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father's estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up any of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.