Wind Across the Everglades

Now with the Audubon Society in early 1900’s Florida, Murdock (Christopher Plummer) doesn’t realize he’s meeting the notorious poacher Cottonmouth (Burl Ives, young Peter Falk in his band), in Wind Across The Everglades, 1958, from Budd Schulberg’s original screenplay.

Often-erratic director Nicholas Ray’s opening to his uneven tale of bird poaching in turn-of-the-century Florida, naturalist Christopher Plummer meeting locals, Gypsy Rose Lee as Mrs. Bradford, Howard I. Smith as bully Leggett, in Wind Across The Everglades, 1958.