Swamp Water

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 Renoir’s first American film, Swamp Water, 1941.

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.

Opening renowned French director Jean Renoir’s 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.

Georgian Ben (Dana Andrews) has moved out of his folks’ house now that he’s got a secret partner in fur-trapping in the Okefenokee, and he’s eager to tell the partner’s daughter Julie (Anne Baxter), an orphan quasi-servant who doesn’t even know he’s alive, about the good news, in Jean Renoir’s Swamp Water, 1941.