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Print courtesy of the Joe Dante and Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles.

A young William Shatner gives a career-best performance in Roger Corman's incendiary The Intruder. The film is set in the small town of Caxton in the Deep South. As Caxton prepares its high school for government-mandated desegregation, Shatner's smooth-talking Adam Cramer arrives under the guise of promoting social reform. Instead, this interloper in a gleaming suit fans the flames of racial tension between the residents of the town. A uniquely confrontational piece of social commentary from Corman (who later lamented the film was his first ever to lose money), The Intruder remains shockingly bold and sadly relevant — and perhaps the filmmaker's masterpiece as a director.

Ages 15+ | Strong coarse language