Swamp Water (1941) - (Movie Clip) You Little Fightin' Cat

Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) They Was Cottonmouth Bit

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.

Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) The Okefenokee Swamp

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.

Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Trouble's Like Me

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.