Swamp Water is a 1941 film

1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:...

 directed by Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...

, starring Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on three separate occasions, which is currently the record for most wins.-Early life:...

, produced at 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

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, and based on the novel by Vereen Bell

Vereen Bell

Vereen Bell was an American novelist and naval officer, who was killed on active duty during World War II.-Early life:Born in Cairo, Georgia, he graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1932.-Career:...

. The drama was shot on location at Okefenokee Swamp

Okefenokee Swamp

The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000 acre , peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida border in the United States. A majority of the swamp is in Georgia and protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness. The Okefenokee Swamp is considered to be...

, Waycross, Georgia

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, USA. This was Renoir's first American

United States

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 film. The movie was remade in 1952 as Lure of the Wilderness

Lure of the Wilderness

Lure of the Wilderness is a 1952 romantic adventure film directed by Jean Negulesco. The film, which was shot in Technicolor, is based on the 1941 novel Swamp Water by Vereen Bell, and is a remake of the Jean Renoir's 1941 adaption of the novel featuring Walter Brennan in a smaller version of his...

, directed by Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter....

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88 minutes, black and white.

Plot outline

This film, like the novel on which it is based, is about a young boy (Ben) who encounters a fugitive (Tom) 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

• Walter Brennan
  Walter Brennan
  Walter Brennan was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on three separate occasions, which is currently the record for most wins.-Early life:...
  
   as Tom Keefer
• Walter Huston
  Walter Huston
  Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of actor and director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.-Life and career:...
  
   as Thursday Ragan
• Anne Baxter
  Anne Baxter
  Anne Baxter was an American actress known for her performances in films such as The Magnificent Ambersons , The Razor's Edge , All About Eve and The Ten Commandments .-Early life:...
  
   as Julie
• Dana Andrews
  Dana Andrews
  Dana Andrews was an American film actor. He was one of Hollywood's major stars of the 1940s, and continued acting, though generally in less prestigious roles, into the 1980s.-Early life:...
  
   as Ben
• Virginia Gilmore
  Virginia Gilmore
  Virginia Gilmore was an American film, stage, and television actress.-Biography:Virginia Gilmore was born as Sherman Virginia Poole in El Monte, California. Her father was a retired officer of the British Army. Gilmore began her stage career in San Francisco at the age of 15, but moved to Los...
  
  as Mabel MacKenzie