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Swamp Water (1941) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Jean Renoir and Irving Pichel (uncredited) and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Irving Pichel.

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Swamp Water (1941)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 21, 2024 From 4 Star Films

A place with a name like Okefenokee feels immanently American and this is an inherently American story though expatriate Jean Renoir feels sympathetic to these types of folks. He wasn’t a working-class filmmaker but in movies from his home country like Toni or La Bete Humaine, you see his con... Read full article

Jean Renoir's "Swamp Water"

By Stephen Reginald on Mar 15, 2023 From Classic Movie Man

Jean Renoir's "Swamp Water" Swamp Water (1941) is an American crime drama set in the Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, Georgia. The film was directed by Jean Renoir and stars Walter Brennan, Walther Huston, Anne Baxter, and Dana Andrews. The strong supporting cast includes Virginia Gilmore, John Carr... Read full article

Swamp Water (1941) with Walter Huston and Walter Brennan

By Orson De Welles on Mar 17, 2016 From Classic Film Freak

Share This!1941’s Swamp Water is a great example of the product not coming as advertised.  From the title and the promotional materials, including the theatrical poster, you’d think this is a typically substandard B-grade horror picture.  Granted, those sometimes schlocky horror pictures can b... Read full article

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Swamp Water Quotes:

Ben: We'll get out Keefer - if I have to bash you in the head when you ain't looking.
Tom Keefer: Bud, there ain't no man livin' can catch me when I ain't lookin'.
Tom Keefer: If you can learn to live with cotton-mouths and 'gators and panthers, on places where there ain't a solid bit of ground to stand on, why I reckon you're welcome to your life.
Ben: This here's Miss Julia... Miss Gordon.
Hannah: Sure, I seen you at Mrs. McCord's. You look a sight pretty child, I've been a' watching you with Ben.
Julie: Thank you.
Thursday Ragan: Ain't you Tom Keefer's young 'un?
Julie: Yes sir.
Ben: I brung her to this dance and I ain't going to have nobody runnin' her down.
Thursday Ragan: I don't aim to have words with none of my kin in public. I mean no offense against this young 'un, but you're the one that seemed ashamed to say her name, not me.
Thursday Ragan: If you'd a minded me, and kept outen that swamp like I told you Ben, you wouldn't be in no fix like you're in... What's the matter boy?
Ben: If you'll be giving me my clothes, I'll be takin' myself offen your hands.
Thursday Ragan: No, you won't - you'll be quiet now. You're sick Ben.
Ben: I ain't so sick I have to lay here and listen to you give me down the country. I knowed that was all you drug me out of that crick for.
Thursday Ragan: I drug you out because you was my boy.
Sheriff Jeb McKane: [admiring a panther hide] Where'd you catch him, Ben?
Ben: Back in the swamp.
Marty McCord: How'd you get him?
Ben: We got him with a load of buckshot.
Tim Dorson: Oh, so you was with somebody.
Ben: I mean me and my dog.
Tim Dorson: I knowed you had a smart dog, Ben, but I never heard he could handle a shotgun.
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Swamp Water Facts
Producer Irving Pichel directed some scenes, uncredited.
Linda Darnell was originally cast in the female lead, and never hid her disappointment when finding out that she had been replaced by Anne Baxter.
Original cinematographer Lucien Ballard was fired and replaced by J. Peverell Marley.
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