Swamp Water
Summary:
Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is falsely convicted of a murder and sentenced to death by hanging. He has escaped from prison and is hiding out in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Keefer is dedicated to finding the real killer and clearing his name. A trapper, Ben Ragan (Dana Andrews), is out s... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Walter Brennan - (Tom Keefer)
Walter Huston - (Thursday Ragan)
Anne Baxter - (Julie)
Dana Andrews - (Ben Ragan)
Virginia Gilmore - (Mabel MacKenzie)
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Review:
Swamp Water is a beautiful, hauntingly lyrical rural drama, adapted surprisingly faithfulness by Dudley Nichols from Vereen Bell's book -- only a few of the sensibilities regarding rural justice and vengeance in the novel have been softened, in keeping with the Hollywood Production Code of the period, but the emotional texture of the book ... Continue >>
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