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Swamp Water is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Pichel released in USA on 16 november 1941 with Walter Brennan
Swamp Water (1941)
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Add to a movie listSwamp 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.
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This film, like the novel on which it is based, is about a local 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 Ben sells the animals hunted and trapped by both until townsfolk become suspicious.Actors
Walter Brennan
(Tom Keefer)
Walter Huston
(Thursday Ragan)
Anne Baxter
(Julie Keefer)
Dana Andrews
(Ben Ragan)
Virginia Gilmore
(Mabel MacKenzie)
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