Probably recklessly camping out in the Okefenokee Swamp in hopes of finding his lost hunting dog, Georgia teenager Ben (Dana Andrews) gets clobbered by an unseen assailant, whom we learn is Walter Brennan, as escaped convict Tom Keefer, in director Jean Renoirs first American film, Swamp Water, 1941.
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Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) You Little Fightin' Cat
Dana Andrews is backwoods Georgia teen Ben, planning to enter the Okefenokee to find his dog, at the general store with locals including Eugene Pallette, Russell Simpson, Ward Bond, Guinn Williams and Anne Baxter, as the rather wild young ward of the owner, Jean Renoir directing, in Swamp Water, 1941.
Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) The Okefenokee Swamp
Opening renowned French director Jean Renoirs first film in the U.S., on location at the Okefenokee in Georgia, Dana Andrews in a search party, with Walter Huston, Ward Bond and others, in Swamp Water, 1941, from the only novel by Georgia-born Vereen Bell, who died in action in the Philippines in World War Two.
Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Trouble's Like Me
Georgian Ben (Dana Andrews) has moved out of his folks house now that hes got a secret partner in fur-trapping in the Okefenokee, and hes eager to tell the partners daughter Julie (Anne Baxter), an orphan quasi-servant who doesnt even know hes alive, about the good news, in Jean Renoirs Swamp Water, 1941.
