Swamp Water

Swamp Water

Theatrical poster
Directed by Jean Renoir
Produced by Irving Pichel
Written by Vereen Bell (novel)
Screenplay by Dudley Nichols
Based on Swamp Water (1940)
Starring Walter Brennan
Walter Huston
Anne Baxter
Dana Andrews
Music by David Buttolph
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Lucien Ballard
Edited by Walter Thompson
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox
Release dates
  • 1941
Running time
 88 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $601,900[1]

Swamp Water is a 1941 film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Walter Brennan and Walter Huston, produced at 20th Century Fox, and based on the novel by Vereen Bell. The film was shot on location at Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, Georgia, USA. This was Renoir's first American film. The movie was remade in 1952 as Lure of the Wilderness, directed by Jean Negulesco.

Plot

This film, like the novel on which it is based, is about a young boy, Ben (Dana Andrews), who encounters a fugitive Tom Keefer (Walter Brennan) from a murder charge while hunting in the Okefenokee Swamp. The two form a partnership in which the youngster sells the animals hunted and trapped by both until townsfolk become suspicious.

Cast

Reception

Although Renoir had difficulty adapting to Hollywood production methods, the film was popular at the box office and made a profit.[1]

Influence

The narrative elements of the 2012 coming-of-age film Mud, directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Matthew McConaughey, have been compared to those of Swamp Water.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rudy Behlmer, Ed, Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck, Grove Press, 1993 p54

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