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3	''The Intruder'' is a 1962 Creator/RogerCorman film [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1959 novel by Charles Beaumont, who also wrote the screenplay.
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5	Jewish Canadian actor Creator/WilliamShatner stars as Adam Cramer, charming cross-burner and zealously patriotic American anti-Semite, who has come to the fictional Southern town of Caxton intending to help its residents fight school desegregation, which is essentially indistinguishable from turning the racism up to eleven.
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7	No relation to the 2019 film of the same name.
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10	!!''The Intruder'' contains the following tropes:
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12	* TheCasanova: Albeit the creepy, lecherous kind.
13	* GunNut: Cramer, as well as Joey’s younger brother. Unfortunately, Cramer actually ''has'' a gun and can treat us to a little bit of [[RecklessGunUsage reckless gun usage]] as well.
14	* LargeHam: Justified, as Cramer is a self-righteous blowhard with a rapt audience.
15	* OnlySaneMan: No one but Tom [=McDaniel=] is bothered enough by the idea of attacking a family for Driving While Black to say something about it.
16	* PlayingSick: Or maybe Vi was a lot more perceptive than her husband and Cramer actually ''did'' make her sick.
17	* PompousPoliticalPundit: Guess who.
18	* SouthernGothicSatan: Adam Cramer is a mundane example -- a charming, zealously patriotic cross-burner who comes to the fictional Southern town of Caxton intending to help its residents fight school desegregation, amplifying the townsfolk's already-present racism to a peak of violent white supremacism.

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