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Swamp Water (1941) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Irving Pichel and Jean Renoir 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 conc... 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 be a gr... Read full article


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Quotes from Swamp Water

Tom Keefer: It's like being dead all these years, and now you're - you're a tellin' me to come back to life again.


Tom Keefer: I hope I didn't hurt you none; I tried to throw you easy like.


Ben: It's gettin' where I'll expect nothing from you but a bossified tongue and a cussin' out.
Mabel MacKenzie: You ain't felt my tongue yet Ben.


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Facts about Swamp Water

Original cinematographer Lucien Ballard was fired and replaced by J. Peverell Marley.
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Linda Darnell was originally cast in the female lead, and never hid her disappointment when finding out that she had been replaced by Anne Baxter.
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Also directed by Jean Renoir




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Also produced by Darryl F. Zanuck




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Also released in 1941




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