Swamp Water (1941)


Swamp Water
Release Date23 October 1941
GenreDrama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime
CountryUSA
Filming LocationsOkefenokee Swamp Park - U.S. 1 South, Waycross, Georgia, USA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorBlack and White
Film TypeFeature
ThemesMiscarriage of Justice, Love Triangles, Escape From Prison
TonesTense
TagsConvict, Crime Solving, Criminal, Daughter, Escape, False Accusation, Fear, Fugitive, Hidden, Investigation, Justice, Kill, Lynching, Man, Murder, Play [recreation], Rap Music, Search, Secrets, Selling, Swamp, Testimony, Trapper
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Swamp Water is a 1941 film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Walter Brennan, produced at 20th Century Fox, and based on the novel by Vereen Bell. The drama 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.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Walter Brennan
Tom Keefer

Walter Huston
Thursday Ragan

Anne Baxter
Julie

Virginia Gilmore
Mabel MacKenzie

John Carradine
Jesse Wick

Mary Howard
Hannah

Eugene Pallette
Sheriff Jeb McKane

Ward Bond
Tim Dorson

Russell Simpson
Marty McCord

Joe Sawyer
Hardy Ragan

Paul E. Burns
Tulle McKenzie

Dave Morris
Barber

Frank Austin
Fred Ulm

Matt Willis
Miles Tonkin

Edward Clark
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Red Larkin
Clem Hooper

Mae Marsh
Mrs. McCord

Charles F. Miller
Fiskus

Sherman Sanders
Caller

Director

Jean Renoir
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Producer

Vereen Bell
novel

Len Hammond
associate producer

Irving Pichel
producer

Original Music

David Buttolph
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Cinematographer

J. Peverell Marley

Editor

Walter Thompson
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Art Director

Richard Day
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Joseph C. Wright
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Set Decorator

Thomas Little
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Costume Designer

Gwen Wakeling
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Makeup Department

Guy Pearce
makeup artist

Sound Department

Alfred Bruzlin
sound

Roger Heman Sr.
sound

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Sam Benson
wardrobe

Music Department

Hugo Friedhofer
orchestrator

David Raksin
orchestrator

Herbert W. Spencer
orchestrator

Production Company

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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Distributor

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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