Swamp Water

Swamp Water

1941 · 90 min · EN · NR · 6.3 (34 votes)
Dir. Jean Renoir · Starring Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan, Mary Howard, Virginia Gilmore · Music David Buttolph

The Swamp! Sinister - mysterious - it shaped the lives and loves and hates of the people who lived around its edges!!

CrimeDramaMysteryThriller

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.

VIBE

A dark, atmospheric descent into the murky depths of human desperation. The oppressive swamp setting breeds tension and moral ambiguity, making for a brooding, character-driven thriller that lingers long after the credits roll.

grittytensemelancholicatmosphericsteadynoir-adjacentSouthern Gothicblack and whitesurvivalmoralityisolationforbidden love
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