Walter Brennan

Walter Huston

Anne Baxter

Dana Andrews

Virginia Gilmore

John Carradine

Mary Howard

Eugene Pallette

Ward Bond

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Russell Simpson

Joe Sawyer

Paul E. Burns

Dave Morris

Frank Austin

Matt Willis

Mae Marsh

Jean Renoir

Vereen Bell

Dudley Nichols

David Buttolph

J. Peverell Marley

Walter Thompson

Guy Pearce

Alfred Bruzlin

Roger Heman Sr.

Irving Pichel

Len Hammond

Richard Day

Joseph C. Wright

Thomas Little

Gwen Wakeling

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Swamp Water

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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"Ben" (Dana Andrews) is taking part in a manhunt through the swamp to track down long since escapee "Tom Keefer" (Walter Brennan) who has been hiding out there for many a year. His dog spots a deer drinking by the side of the river and jumps off their boat into the Okefenokee after it. Despite the sagacious counsel of his father (Walter Huston), he decides to set off into the undergrowth to try and reunite with his mutt. There he encounters their previous quarry and discovers things might not be so straightforward as he'd previously thought; especially when he returns and meets the fugitive's daughter "Julie" (Anne Baxter) and has to cross swords with the scheming "Dorson" brothers - Ward Bond and Guinn Williams (whom I swear has more than a passing resemblance to George W. Bush!). The story has an inevitability about it, but Brennan and Andrews, not for the first time, gel well - as do Andrews and the slightly doey eyed Baxter. Eugene Pallette - or at least his inimitable voice - helps keep it moving, alongside John Carradine and a gentle performance from Mary Howard making for an untaxing, but enjoyable enough thriller with some lovely cinematography and real life alligators!

English