Writers: Vereen Bell, Dudley Nichols
Composer: David Buttolph
Starring: Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Mary Howard, Eugene Pallette, Ward Bond, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Russell Simpson, Joe Sawyer, Paul E. Burns, Dave Morris, Frank Austin, Matt Williams
More info: IMDb
Tagline: The Swamp! Sinister - mysterious - it shaped the lives and loves and hates of the people who lived around its edges!!
Plot: A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
My rating: 7/10
Will I watch it again? Maybe.
There are moments in this film that transcend its B-movie status and it's in the shots and camera movement. So it's no surprise that it was made by a European filmmaker. Then there's the excellent cast, many of whom were about to break into stardom or had just started. They all do a fine job. I dug the story but I was worried that it wouldn't work out but it did. There are a few scenes that were filmed in the Okefenokee Swamp in Southern Georgia and enough can't be said how those moments help make the film. Though it's obvious that a lot of the picture was filmed in a studio, the sets are well constructed and blend as well as you could probably hope for under the circumstances. For some reason I wasn't bothered by some of the inaccurate Southern accents. That could be because the film was engaging and entertaining. It's well worth a look.
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