Swamp Water Overview:

Swamp Water (1941) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Irving Pichel and Jean Renoir and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Irving Pichel.

BlogHub Articles:

Jean Renoir's "Swamp Water"

By Stephen Reginald on Mar 15, 2023 From Classic Movie Man

Jean Renoir's "Swamp Water" Swamp Water (1941) is an American crime drama set in the Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, Georgia. The film was directed by Jean Renoir and stars Walter Brennan, Walther Huston, Anne Baxter, and Dana Andrews. The strong supporting cast includes Virginia Gilmore, John Carr... Read full article


Swamp Water (1941) with Walter Huston and Walter Brennan

By Orson De Welles on Mar 17, 2016 From Classic Film Freak

Share This!1941?s Swamp Water is a great example of the product not coming as advertised.? From the title and the promotional materials, including the theatrical poster, you?d think this is a typically substandard B-grade horror picture.? Granted, those sometimes schlocky horror pictures can be a gr... Read full article


See all Swamp Water articles

Quotes from

Ben: I never in my life asked for no kiss, always just took 'em. I'll be dogged if I ain't asking you now, Julie.


Sheriff Jeb McKane: [admiring a panther hide] Where'd you catch him, Ben?
Ben: Back in the swamp.
Marty McCord: How'd you get him?
Ben: We got him with a load of buckshot.
Tim Dorson: Oh, so you was with somebody.
Ben: I mean me and my dog.
Tim Dorson: I knowed you had a smart dog, Ben, but I never heard he could handle a shotgun.


Thursday Ragan: If you'd a minded me, and kept outen that swamp like I told you Ben, you wouldn't be in no fix like you're in... What's the matter boy?
Ben: If you'll be giving me my clothes, I'll be takin' myself offen your hands.
Thursday Ragan: No, you won't - you'll be quiet now. You're sick Ben.
Ben: I ain't so sick I have to lay here and listen to you give me down the country. I knowed that was all you drug me out of that crick for.
Thursday Ragan: I drug you out because you was my boy.


read more quotes from Swamp Water...

Facts about

Linda Darnell was originally cast in the female lead, and never hid her disappointment when finding out that she had been replaced by Anne Baxter.
Original cinematographer Lucien Ballard was fired and replaced by J. Peverell Marley.
Producer Irving Pichel directed some scenes, uncredited.
read more facts about Swamp Water...
Share this page:
Visit the Classic Movie Hub Blog CMH
Also directed by Jean Renoir




More about Jean Renoir >>
Also produced by Darryl F. Zanuck




More about Darryl F. Zanuck >>
Also released in 1941




See All 1941 films >>